Social media and our perception of others Every day we meet many people who have seen their behavior, we listen to what they say, we think about them, we try to understand them. We feel that we not only see what color a person's eyes and hair are, tall or not, thin or full, but also sad or funny, smart or stupid, solid or not and so on. Over the past decade, social media has seen growth to the point where 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 add it to your Pinterest account. These things have become so common that not having them almost makes it seem like something is missing. Thanks to features like these, it's incredibly easy to share every aspect of what we read, do, eat, and listen to with everyone in our social networks. While this has meant incredible advances in how we interact with our world, it has also fundamentally changed how our social relationships are created and sustained. Social media has led users to have a false impression of others and changed our feelings. Because social media users tend to show only the most positive aspects of their lives, social media users have a false sense of reality when it comes to how they look, how others see them, and how they see others. people. “It is not difficult to say that social media influences our perception of others” (Goshgarian213). Social media users see other people differently due to most of the content posted on social media, which leads to glorifying users and revealing unnecessary information. When you first log onto a social media site like Facebook, the first things you... middle of paper......• Goshgarian, Gary. What matters in America. New Jersey: Pearson, 2012. Print.• Moyes, Stephen. Mad mused: The photos expose the preacher of hate as a drunken party animal. The Sun.10 June 2013. Web. 25 September 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 new narcissism". What matters in America. Third edition. Gary Goshgarian and Kathryn Goodfellow. New Jersey: Pearson, 2012. 52-60. Print.• The Muse. The Facebook Experiment: What It Means for You. Forbes magazine. August 4, 2014. Web. September 25, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/dailymuse/2014/08/04/the-facebook-experiment-what-it-means-for-you/