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We live now in a time wherein social medias dominates the means of communications such as on Messenger, Viber, Twitter and many more that I'm not familiar with. We don't live anymore in time wherein letters in envelopes are being delivered by a boy who will knock infront of our doors. Maybe there's a few with that means to communicate until now but it's very rare now.
In just one tap with the send button or reply button, you can already say what you want to the person that's on the other side of the screen. With the help of these technologies such as my phone that I'm using now I can say good words and bad words easily without taking a sweat. It turned the way of communication very easy now but without the knowledge of other users out there on the said gadgets, there's a negative effect also that it can bring.
In this blog I want to discuss what are the good and bad things that I gained through chatting with the people I knew from social medias.
Let's start with the good one since I don't want to start this one with the bad.
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Since my mother was an OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker), she doesn't get the time to call us through number because sometimes the signal here is not stable and makes the call very choppy. At night before she go to sleep, she will chat me that she's okay there and there's nothing to worry about. I will relay it to my father also,by the way my parents are not that into technologies so they don't want to do complicated things with their cellphones, just call and text.
Everytime she will chat me her condition there and in that way we didn't have to worry about her safety there. Also through video chat, we also talked to her bosses there and they were kind enough to treat my mom as part of their family. With the use of chatting on social media, it helps us to monitor my mother even if her bosses were kind. We did it until she got home here.
Misunderstanding within the family can't be avoided especially if there were people who likes to dip their fingers in someone's business. We had a family problem back then and it really drained me to the point that I can't even concentrate with my studies anymore.
I was just so lucky to have friends that I can rely on in difficult time such as this. They noticed my changes in school and they made a group chat, they include me to it and everytime I didn't go to school they will check on me. Asked my situation and will send me messages that are meant to encourage me not to think anything bad to myself.
Their chats actually helped me to stay in good condition. Also if I missed some activities in school, they will use the group chat to send those. With the use of chatting they helped me to get through with our trial and helped me to be on track with my studies again.
As for the bad thing that chatting contributed to my life here it is.
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As I mentioned my mother is a former Ofw and she's far from us so she didn't really know what's going on here. With this situation, other people here used the chance to chat my mom, fed her with different unreal informations about my father here. What's worse is it's my mother's siblings. How toxic it was.
Since it's her siblings she believed it when they chatted her for the first time without our knowledge. We just shocked one day and she's very angry at my father and me. She's saying that my father has some sort of affairs with other woman here in our place.
I chatted her where she get those informations and she said it was from her siblings. It seems that they just want money from my mom that's why they made us look bad to her. What a terrible way.
In just a couple of chats to my mom, our life became messy. It affected me the most since I value much our family and one day it will just collapse with those sentences that any of it are not even true. We spend money to make a call to my mom, to make this issue clear to her. I'm glad that she believed us at the end and not her siblings.
See, through with just a couple of chats it can help someone or it can make someone not okay. So be careful not to mess up with your chats to others.
This is my entry to the challenge of Hive Learners community.
Thank you for reading, friends.