After almost 2 years of lockdown and now in the endemic stage, my life has changed a lot and I have easily adapted to the new norm. my daily routines have been easier with the help of new media. in my opinion New media has definitely made life under lockdown better. 

 

A new media that was extremely beneficial to me was FaceTime , as it kept me sane throughout the lockdown. I enjoy being around my friends a lot and not being able to see them definitely made me wanna jump off a cliff :D but with the help of FaceTime I was able to connect easily with them anywhere and everywhere, even till now FaceTime is a new media that I use daily. The only downside of the app is that if your wifi is bad then obviously the calls would be a pain in the doo doo. I felt happy to be able to communicate with my loved ones as well during this hard time but it would be better being able to experience such contentment in real life.

 

Although the lockdown has brought a lot of positive changes into my life, I would still to go back to how things were before the pandemic. I got my final year of high school taken away from me and my part time job stopped midway due to the rise of cases, I felt like I missed out on so many opportunities that would give me more exposure to the world and I want to experience everything that I missed.  Other than that, being able to go back to how things was would be better to me as I believe things and life is always better when we are able to live the moments physically and not through a digital screen.

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New media has definitely helped me through my first two years of tertiary studies as the pandemic started the moment I graduated from high school. We had to use apps like Microsoft Teams and Zoom for our classes and we had to attend them from home. Of course this made it possible for me to be able to attend classes virtually without breaking the quarantine and it also made it easier in a way to acquire learning materials like notes and slides from my lectures online using the Times website. It took a while to get used to it especially after years of learning in classes but it was manageable in the end. I would say the most frustrating or annoying thing is it was difficult to get to know my peers o a more personal scale, where we were only able to talk to each other during our online classes where 90% of the time we would have our cameras off and would barely break the ice in talking to each other. It also made it slightly difficult when doing group assignments where sometime some group members would suddenly go MIA or would pretty much ignore our messages and texts or there was some sort of misunderstanding in our group chats. With apps like Discord and social media platforms like Instagram and Whatsapp, I was able to still talk with friends and family, but it was difficult to make new friends or to meet new people. Sometimes I did feel lonely during the pandemic period although being able to talk to people online as I feel that it was always better to meet people and make connections with people physically and in person and I think the need for it only grew more over time as the pandemic went on. I would definitely prefer having physical classes at campus and being able to go out and do things like going out and eating food or meet ng up with friends and family and do outdoor activities, but the addition of new media platforms and the advancement of communication technology has only made it easier for connections with other people to stay strong regardless of distance or in the occurrence of any unfortunate circumstances.

I would say that the m daily media usage of the new media up from the lockdown has changed my routine dreastically. Such as reading emails or going on g-mail to check on my emails. As many things went online and we were stuck at home, adapting to the new enviroment of doing classes in my bedroom instead of the classroom changed my perspective and i grew from that experience of all the bored and annoying days of becoming a near robot. the experience wasnt good nor bad, but it can be simplified that it has its ups and down.

I cant really imagine myself going back to a time where my adaption of new media and become a part of my routine and i would do it automaticallty, returning back to the time where i wasn’t able to do these activities might break me honestly.

the one thing i like is that i’m able to make my life alot more organized, and that im interconnected with so many friends that are across the world and im able to talk to them with ease despite of the large ocean seperating us, but one thing i do not like is that it could feel that it has taken over my life and i seem to work to live than live to work. ive had everything sorted yet im unable to have a life which is annoying. 

After two years of lockdown, our life has changed a lot. During the time of lockdown in china, we could not go out every day but we can go out once every two or three days to buy things at the supermarket. However, apps are really convenient for us and we can order food, vegetables, or some necessities through apps. These delivery apps brought great convenience to our life, and we could even deliver things to elderly people at home alone. But we need to scan the QRcode for enter into the public places, it’s kind of complex for us, especially for elder people. 

And during that time, I am familiar with this kind of life mode, it made my life much easier, and I can do most of the things at home with the new media. In my opinion, new media made life better under lockdown, everyone could work or study at home. And at the same time, we can receive all information through social media. 

Actually, I would like to go back to before the pandemic, people could easily hang out with friends and travel around the world easily, although the new media had made our life better, it’s not that free to do a thing. And human could free from disease. I often use wechat to communicate with my friends, and I can also see the pictures sent by my friends on this app and share their lives. I like to see how they lives even I am far away from them. However, the app sometimes gets stuck, especially when I'm video call with friends. Network issues could also cause a lot of problems. 

In my daily life, I rarely using social media begore pandemic because of my busy schedule to study especially when I was in highschool I live in a school dormitory so I cannot use electronic device that much except my laptop.

But after the pandemic I mostly stay at home and use my social media more often, either to communication with my friends or to study from zoom meeting with my teacher. This makes me feel closer to them even though we are in each other's homes.

New media really helps a lot in my experience, before that my school had few students so it was like homeschooling, and for some time we would still go in despite the lockdown to take the Cambridge exams. For some case, there were times when school activities were carried out offline and I couldn't come for some reason, I was still able to take part in lessons by joining zoom meetings and this was very different from before the pandemic where when we weren't present we would miss lessons.

For me, I really like new media because it really makes one's daily activities easier. People can now interact more easily and work and school in new ways without the need to meet face to face but this also sometimes makes me forget the time because I use social media too often.  So, I believe new media is very useful as long as people can use it properly.

During the lockdown, I’ve discovered a new profound, yet toxic relationship with new media. Because I was restricted in going out and interacting with people face-to-face, I became chronically online; meaning that my life during the lockdown was nothing but attending countless Zoom meetings, watching and making TikToks, posting stories on Instagram, and watching all of the shows on my Netflix watchlist. New media became a safe space for me. I discovered and learned new things through social media, reached out to people I havent talked to in a while and learned how to adapt my routine to the new digital age. Frankly, I’ve been always “addicted” to social media, even before the pandemic, but the lockdown had made me more engrossed with the content that I consume online. My social anxiety has unfortunately became worse because of this, I spend so much time online that sometimes I forget how to interact and communicate with people in real life. There were plenty of times where I felt extremely lonely and fearful that my social skills wouldn’t go back to the way it used to be after the lockdown ended. I was scared that I’d had changed to be a completey different person and that I would lose all of my relationships that I’ve built throughout the years. Even though life has now gone back to “normal”, I’ve missed the person that I was before the pandemic, the Nadya who didn’t spend 12 hours a day on her phone and was able to mingle with anybody in real life without feeling anxious. 

I would say that TikTok has definitely become my most used social media app. It’s fun to scroll through and you get endless funny and unique videos that cater to your interests. But I also hate the fact that TikTok can make you easily spend hours scrolling on your phone. Since there isn’t necessarily an end to your for you page, its hard for you to stop yourself from watching hundreds of 15 second videos everyday. 

I’m still grateful for new media, albeit its downsides. It has allowed me to broaden my horizons and ha saccompanied me during my loneliest and darkest times in my life. 

These changes that were made throughout the pandemic has also affected me in my current life. I check my social medias more often, and i get bored so much easier due to the decreased attention span. Medias like TikTok that i used frequently during the pandemic is one of the main causes for this. So if i were to choose, i’d much rather choose a life before pandemic. where we all dont have to wear masks, and everything was normal. I feel like things right now are moving way too fast. We’re jumping from one trend to another, one new thing to another too quickly, especially due to the rise of new social media apps like TikTok and Douyin. 

Another thing that i dislike from TikTok is that it really messes up with our attention span. It gives us way too much information at once, which is what makes it so addicting. I used to be able to read and finish books in one sitting, but now it’s become much harder for me to complete. The lasting effects of TikTok has made it hard for me to stay focused and sharp at certain times 

The saying ‘Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder’ proves to be true, mainly during the pandemic. I am an introvert myself, but the lack of social interaction has made me crave it deeply during the pandemic. It goes the same with the absence of social media. When we stop using social medias, we will crave it even more. I think it’s one saying that we all can agree on. 

I think that the new media make my life better after lockdown.I use new media to get news and informations about the disease spreading across the globe and know about the SOP rules from the government during the lockdown. For example , Facebook,Instagram and Twitter. My family member from other countries also will posts their current situation and photo to let us know their situation. It changes our online life daily and relationships with our parents, and friends and also eased our feeling of loneliness.

In my opinion,I think that this pandemic really affects my relationship between each other.For example, my family members group to fight against the pandemic, and they feel more connected with each other. This is great for me.I feel more happiness with my family after the pandemic. 

In my opinion, new media made our lives easier during the pandemic lock down. Most of us can only stay in our home during the lock down. We can receive informations from the new media. For example, we can follow the latest news from the internet.

We can also use new media as entertainment. Many people feeling bored during the lock down. They can use new media to kill their time.

For education, student use new media to have E-learning, so they won’t mess their study progress up.

For me, I prefer to go back to before the pandemic. During the pandemic and lock down, I lost many things. We don’t have such events and gathering in my high school. We don’t have many time to spend with our friends. School decided to cancel lots of event such as sports competition. I feel pity for my age of teenager, because I don’t have the time that I cannot fully enjoy it.

The new media app that I use most frequently is DouYin. I like it’s entertainment function. It provides the short video that you are interested. So I can really kill my time by using DouYin. But at the same time, I think DouYin is taking too many time in my daily life. DouYin attract me to use it, make me spend a lot of time in it unconsciously. That’s the point that I don’t like DouYin. 

As I see it, new media make people lives easier and better. But if we can’t use it properly and smartly, we will get the negative consequences.

New media made my life easier and of course under lockdown. Let’s discuss one of the most important “new media” under lockdown which is Grab! Grab save my life! I tested positive under lockdown, so I can’t go everywhere, Grab Food to save my life! I can easily order food using Grab without going out from home and also get my medicine or any daily necessities using Grab! Not only that, staying 24 hours x 7 days in a room is boring! I have to find some entertainment for myself and the best new media at that time is YouTube and Netflix! YouTube and Netflix accompanied me through the whole lockdown and quarantine period!

If let me choose before or after the pandemic, I have considered this question myself before, I'll talk about my interest in media design. I used to prefer everything before the pandemic, because at that time the design of media including video making, photography skills, etc was not very developed and everyone who understood it was very limited, so there was less competition. But because of the pandemic, everyone has access to this and has the changes to try these, so everyone is getting better and the competition is getting bigger. But in the end, I chose after the pandemic because it was the competition that made me keep learning and making myself and my skills better.

If it wasn't for new media, we wouldn't have survived the pandemic. So New Media has definitely made life under lockdown better. Due to the lockdown, everyone was tied at home not having anything to do which was the best opportunity for us to connect with each other through WhatsApp video calls, Facetime and zoom meetings. Hence, thanks to New Media, I’ve gotten closer to my distant family and friends.

Although, I would love to go back to the way things were before, it wouldn’t make up for the time and opportunities we have lost due to the lockdown. So, I feel New Media has changed our lives for better and we all have already adapted to this change and it wouldn’t be possible for us to go back to things like before. There are now more opportunities, easier communication, easier and convenient lifestyle through the New Media as more people have now understood it better and are using it to expand their knowledge, business, experience and so on. 

I like how New Media has made things convenient for everyone to work accordingly such as Work from Home or Online Classes which mostly increase productivity and flexibility for people to work especially for those who are back in their own country and are not able to travel due to immigration matters.

What I do not like about New Media is how it has made us lazier and too comfortable in our space.

Due to the lockdown, we are now used to getting everything delivered to our doorstep be it clothes, food, grocery or paying our bills online, which has just made us lazy and too dependent digitally.

Hence, we have gotten too comfortable in our homes which just leads us not wanting to go out and just stay at home scrolling endlessly on our phones neglecting the work that has to be done.

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During the pandemic, New Media has bring positive impacts to my life. New media helps me on exploring the diversity of the world in every aspects which also helps me on having a better relationship with myself and the world. For instance, I gained more knowledge on psychology aspects which provides an opportunity for me to know myself better and helps my self-development. For another example, I watched different types of film including animations, short film and others which helps me to understand more about different culture and perspectives from different characters that I previously have low chances to met with.

I appreciate that New Media has brings lots of conveniences and benefits to us including enable me to gain more knowledges from different channels which saves my resources such as time. However, I would prefer go back to before the pandemic on communication. Even though New Media provides platform and channels for me to communicate and interact with my familiar ones during pandemic despite I’m having a long distance relationship with them, I would prefer face-to-face method. In my opinion, face-to-face method would enable a person to fully express their feelings and emotions through the tone of voice, body language and facial expressions.

New Media allows me to solve my problems on meals conveniently by choose meals, order, and finish the payment through online, and receive the food from delivery man. This saves my time, money and energy. However, there’s sometimes when I had to face the hard situations when my network connections went bad which May leads to the cancellation of the order or got interrupted during the process of online transaction.

One of my frequently used new media tools are DUOLINGO and Instagram. What I like about DUOLINGO is that it has made learning new languages easier for me. And Instagram is my go-to media platform since it’s where I go to contact my friends from back home and it’s also where I read news from around the world.