Perhaps many people are spending a lot of times on Internet. When we wake up, we check new
posts on Facebook. When we before eat delicious food, we take a picture in order to upload it as
a new post to Tweeter or Facebook. Recently, I read the essay, “Allegory of the Cave”, written
by Plato. It was written around 600BC ago, but the allegory that Plato used can apply to our
lives. In his allegory of the cave, Plato describes the prisoners who are chained into the cave so
that they can’t move. However, they can only see the shadows that are made by the other people.
When I read this description, the Social Network Service(SNS) environment occurs to me.
Of course SNS has positive functions. Sometimes SNS provides useful information, such as
sale information, world trending news. Now look at our Facebook timeline. The news feeds are
plastered with pictures of our friends. They upload the pictures with happy faces, beautiful places
and delicious meals. However, we can also easily find meaningless posts, and hardly find sad
faces on the SNS, because nobody wants to share that emotion. These useless post and happy
face are like the shadows that Plato describes. We can’t find the real emotions of our friends.
Their real emotions are hidden in the online posts, pictures, and videos. We are only seeing the
shadows that are made by our friends.
Sometimes the posts can affect our mood. Many people start their day check new posts from
SNS. Again, the posts are plastered with positive words and images. If the person has
psychological problems such as, depression, they might compare another person’s artificial
life(the shadows) to the own life. By comparing others lives can’t help to improve the mood.
I have talked mostly about the bad impacts of SNS, but it has also positive sides. I usually
check the group events that I join so that I can’t forget the date. However, I am trying to avoid
the upload the posts, because I know those can affect other people’s life, and I don’t want to
spend my time to upload meaningless postings. I want to say instead of remaining in the cave
and looking at shadows, we should get out of the cave. We should enjoy the real trees, fresh air
and sunshine.
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