Social media and our perception of othersEvery day we meet many people who have seen their behavior, listen to what they say, think about them, try to to understand. We feel that we see not only the color of a person's eyes and hair, tall or not, thin or full, but also sad or funny, smart or stupid, solid or not, etc. Over the past decade, social media has grown so much that it is reflected in our daily lives and even in the lives of those who choose not to use it. Everywhere we go online, there are always buttons to click to share something on Facebook or pin it to your Pinterest account. These things have become so common that not having them almost feels like something is missing. With features like this, it's incredibly easy to share every aspect of what we read, do, eat, and listen to with everyone on our social networks. While this has led to incredible advances in the way we interact with our world, it has also fundamentally changed the way our social relationships are created and maintained. Social media has led users to have false impressions of others and changed the way we feel. Because social media users tend to show only the more positive aspects of their lives, social media users have a false sense of reality when it comes to how they present themselves, how others see them and how they see others. “It is not difficult to say that social media affects our perceptions of others” (Goshgarian213). Social media users view others differently due to much of the content posted on social media, which leads to exalting users and revealing unnecessary information. When one first logs into a social networking site such as Facebook, the first things that... middle of paper ......• Goshgarian, Gary. What matters in America. New Jersey: Pearson, 2012. Print.• Moyes, Stephen. Mad Mullered: Photos expose hate preacher as drunken party animal. The Sun. June 10, 2013. Web. September 25, 2014. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4962080/Young-Anjem-Choudary-exposed-as-drunken-womanising-buffoon.html• Orenstein, Peggy. “I tweet, therefore I am.” What matters in America. Third edition. Gary Goshgarian and Kathryn Goodfellow. New Jersey: Pearson, 2012. 40-43. Print.• Rosen, Christine. “Virtual friendship and the new narcissism.” What matters in America. Third edition. Gary Goshgarian and Kathryn Goodfellow. New Jersey: Pearson, 2012. 52-60. Print.• The Muse. The Facebook Experience: What it means to you. Forbes Magazine. August 4, 2014. the web. September 25, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2014/08/04/the-facebook-experiment-what-it-means-for-you/