The impact of social media on Filipino culture

 This phenomenon of social media has decidedly transformed the culture of the Filipino people in opening avenues for cultural preservation, creative expression, and activism, but also poses a danger of cultural dilution, misinformation, and loss of substance in interacting with other people. Finding the delicate balance is the most challenging part: embracing modernization through social media yet rooted firmly in Filipino values and traditions. Indeed, the power of social media has significantly changed Filipino culture.  It is also through the same direction. Social media turns long-standing traditions on its head. Modernism has become an official part of some Filipinos' formal ritual in marriage, baptism, or other cultural rites, following the trend that emerges on Instagram or TikTok. Viral challenges and trends even define what contemporary Philippine popular culture is-faithfully a mix of what has overwhelmed the worldwide and what the Philippines already has, flung into...