“Make This. Yours!”

Social media stalks and uses you, advertising tons of millions stuff to you and bombarding you with an overwhelming amount of information. More badly, people themselves gradually become a part of the disturbing social network itself. When your friends get addicted to Facebook or Twitter and are constantly sharing and liking every post they have seen, your home page will look like a total disaster. In addition, the social media will then suggest you more articles/photos based on your what your friend circles are viewing. Usually, most of these posts are not at all useful and even upsetting.

However, afraid of not knowing the latest trend or what’s happening around my friends, I’ve never shut my social network completely down even though it has been annoying me for such a long time. Isn’t social media founded at first was to connect people and give us access to what we want to know and what we need to know more easily? What should we do to change this scenario?

Andrew Golis launched the beta of This. on November 13. This.cm is a site to help people find and share the web’s best stories, ideas and arguments. Each user can share just one link a day. Yes, only one! People can send invitations to their friends and start crafting their own community and experience to more closely fit to their interests. The site will be a place where people show off the beautiful, weird, smart and meaningful links that can be treated as something with lasting value.

I found that the building of this site is really helpful to our lives. We really need to calm down and ponder more. Before we share or like a post on social media, we have to ask ourselves: “Do I really like it and why? What’s the information it is sending to us and what’s my opinion on this.” As a result, our friends will get to know more valuable information as well. The This.cm site can greatly help people to realize this goal and make social network a more meaningful and efficient platform for us.