"The importance of social media to me as part of the youth and as a Filipino." Social media is a platform where everyone—young or old—can do whatever they want, from retrieving information to providing information. Although, it can have a downside to it such as the lack of control over the millions of posts created by different people all over the world. Social media is a platform where one must not ignore the dangers because such a platform can be the cause of data privacy issues and different cybercrimes. It is a platform where—when in need—can reach out to the general public. For example, in times of a pandemic like we are facing now, netizens have reached out on different social media platforms appealing and calling out for help. In most cases, since we Filipinos are avid users of Facebook and Twitter, a lot turn to such platforms calling out for help on financial support for online/virtual classes through posts. With what I stated, we can say that social media is a doubl...