Is Social Media As Good As Our Expectation? Social media, such as Facebook, enable people to communicate immediately, which saves a lot of time and money; on the other hand, they could have some negative effects simultaneously. People usually spend a large amount of time on them, caring about what their friends did and where their friends went. Once a person has the habit of looking at his Facebook, he would probably become addicted. Apparently, it is ridiculous and boring to observe the lives of people who we don’t meet instead of taking care of our own relatives or friends with whom we stay in reality. People might lose opportunities to meet somebody who will change their lives in the future, just because they are looking at the posts of their online friends or celebrities on Facebook or Instagram. There are many gaps between people. What we should do is to build bridges between them instead of destroy the existing connections. Sometimes we use social media to build the online and fragile bridges, while we are destroying the solid connections in reality at the same time. I had an experience that impressed me very much. Last winter, I was walking with my friend who was looking at her smartphone and introducing me to a group on Facebook. She said that the group aimed to help people suffering from poverty in undeveloped countries. I didn’t stop my steps until I saw a poor and skinny man trembling in cold winds, but my friend still kept moving without noticing what happened around her. What a strange phenomenon! It is wrong to look at others’ lives on social media and ignore what is happening around us. The less time we spend on social media, the more we will gain in the real world.