Having conversations and learning from those you meet along the way with different cultures and customs. Travelling should be a time for relaxing, exploring and spending moments with people you that you love. Has reality become warped by Instagram filters and the need for the perfect selfie angle? Do we care more about checking how many likes we get on an image as opposed to enjoying the very thing that we are taking a photo of? Cut off from the world Is social media just simply a way of showing off and monitoring your own level of success and failure? Feeling like there is a constant competition with others to portray the perfect life, even if you’re homesick, got a bad tummy or haven’t slept in days due to flight delays. Is there anything more awesome than seeing a sunset view over a mountain you didn’t know existed? Or experiencing an event in person as opposed to behind an iPhone screen? Has our need to document everything taken away our desire to experience the reality? On the flip side have we become too reliant on documenting, organising and over analysing every move of our trip? Isn’t travel supposed to be about the unknown and the adventure? Without planning, who knows where you might end up, which random people you might meet along the way, and in places you didn’t plan to visit. What are the top 5 pizzeria’s in Rome? Which beaches on the east coast of Australia are not to miss? Are their any local events scheduled for the time that I am visiting a particular location? It aids us to get the most out of our experience by utilizing what is available to us at that moment, in the present, which cannot always be said for the dusty, heavy, out of date copy of the lonely planet that many of us used to lug around Southeast Asia. Social media also allows us to find out more about a place that we are visiting. We can tag our locations, share photos with others on the trip, and keep in contact with people we meet along the way through adding friends to our favourite social media accounts. You can make friends for life from all over the world and with the touch of a button send them a message instead of air mailing letters arriving months later! It’s also a great way for solo travellers to get in touch with others to visit tourist attractions and share transport and accommodation costs. Through messages, photos and location tags, parents in particular can track our day to day movements which gives them piece of mind that we are safe and well, wherever in the world we might be. Social media has revolutionized the way that we keep in touch with loved ones at home. We can upload these photos in an instant and create an online album, replacing any need to worry about losing our holiday snaps if we lose our camera, printed photo album or even the phone we took the picture on. We are now able to take beautiful, good quality photos on our phones at the drop of a hat, and thanks to Instagram, add a fantastic filter and crop, and have a memory stored for eternity.
It is clear on the one hand that in many ways, the world of social media has enhanced our travel experiences. There is an argument on both sides for this.
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