This project is about my reflection that based on questioning the pros and cons of social media for keeping connections between me and my family or parents. On one hand, we rely on the social media to know one another’s life, like when a child apart from their parents. For instance, myself, as an international student who studies abroad, social media plays a unique role in my parents’ and my life. Chatting or sharing information through the platform of social media keeps us connected. On the other hand, social media as the medium that delivers information for us is never being timely for us. I cannot feel the same degree of joy when I looked at the videos or photographs that have been taken by my parents. At the same time, I’m not able to let my parents experience exactly the feelings about the things I see. Social media also carries the properties of selective for both sides of the communicators. For example, I choose to read and respond few contents of the huge amount of information that my parents share with me. My parents choose to hide the aging signs on their face.

Through this series of photographs, I appreciate that technology contributed to social media helped me be able to receive caring and support from my family. Furthermore, it helped me reflect on my lack in my company to my parents. Being more responding probably will not overcome the barrier of social media for not being the real existence and life sharing, but it will definitely ease the missing for them.