MEDIA SOSIAL MENJERAT MANUSIA DI MASA PANDEMI

Social media has now become people's daily behavior. Starting from the children to the older generation cannot be separated from the existence of social media. The rapid development of technology coupled with the presence of the corona virus pandemic has an impact on all sectors of life, including social life. People, especially in urban areas, have to refrain from going out of the house. The writing of this article discusses how humans can get entangled with social media and the effects of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. The writer uses her personal experience of what she felt during her lifetime in the midst of a viral storm and added from several opinions or theories from the journal references of Lambung Mangkurat University lecturers as review material. The results of this writing show that social media has become a human need to be able to maintain the social, psychological and economic factors of each individual during the corona virus pandemic.