My opinion on the effect of social media on society

More and more people use the social medias, but how does it affect our private lives?
This is my opinion based on personal experience, any sentence that might be read as a fact is just me messing up the wording and should be read as an opinion. Also I will be limiting myself to how it changes behavior amongst ourselves.
I admit, I as well as many others have fallen for the charms of social media. As However, no matter what harm it does, social media does have its charms and its positive sides, and I’ll continue using it. But what I’ve been realizing is that it is changing how we as a society are interacting with each other. Social media has started to be seen as the truth and facts about a person. If it is not on your social media it didn’t happen. But some pages of life shouldn’t be shown there, which could harm your career in later life.
Going somewhere and doing things with friends used to be something secluded to those present and maybe the ones having to listen to the stories for years after.
The social-media-pause comes from today's need to share everything with everyone all the time, a social-media-pause is the time where your activity has to be paused so you or anyone else can take that obligatory Instagram picture so the outside world can be involved as example. This in my opinion is a double edged sword on one side it expands your presence of the community and enforces your bonds with them. On the other side you are weakening the bond with the persons present at the activity especially if they, don’t share the same social media sentiment and other persons that might be attending the same activity with their own party but can’t see because the social-media-pause of the person standing in front of them is blocking their view.
In my experience people that are extremely active tend to go through a split of their personality. They have their “social media” personality and their normal one.
On social media they start pretending to be a certain person, usually nice, kind, active, fun and receiving. This personality you’ll also find when they go out to events where they “need” to apply the social-media-pause. But when being with them on normal day to day activities, they are someone completely else.
Well if this is your cup of tea it’s not necessarily a bad thing, I guess. But personally I pick my friends for being “real” people, people that are their “real” selves in any situation. It just makes me feel better knowing that when a friend says something or has a good time it is because they actually mean it, and it’s not a person they put up to get more likes.
This bring me these days, what is a friend… A friend used to be a person you’d go do things with, could always count on, some one that knew you and was there for you when needed.
But what is a friend these days? Yes, the “old school” friends luckily still exist, but with the rise of social media “Having a friend” no longer means the same… Friends have become a means of gathering likes and popularity, the amount of friends has become a form of status. They are no longer required to know who you are as long as they like your photos or posts. Asking “how are you” has become a way to pretend to show interest and has become a sentence where no answer is expected unless it is “good, and you” an equally meaningless sentence.
Well I refer to what I said before under “Split personality”, I prefer real friends even on my Social Medias, Quality over quantity and all that. Being a traveler making friends all over the world, Social media for me is to keep in contact with all these people, and to share my experiences with them. Random strangers I never met I simply have no interest in sharing my life with.
Fair is fair there are things I like to share with the whole world.

Conclusion
Even though Social media has its charm and most certainly has its place in society there is no denying that it has changed us as a society and how we interact and see each other.
I think we no longer value our friends and close ones the way we used to do before and we’ve become fueled by likes and followers while sacrificing closeness and realness.