Does Social Media Really Help Us in Learning Compared to Teachers?

Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Surely all of you are already familiar with those words, right? Those are some of the types of social media that we often use on a daily basis. Maybe you guys already know what social media is. Social media is a digital platform that facilitates users to communicate with each other or share content in the form of writing, photos, videos, or anything on there. Based on data from Hootsuite, there are four social media platforms that are most frequently accessed by Indonesian social media users, namely YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. From the same survey, Indonesia has 160 million active users of social media. And in fact now, learning through social media is in demand by the public, ranging from children to adults. Social media is very much needed in various community activities during this pandemic, especially for student learning. Many people prefer to learn through social media independently without the guidance of a teacher. But if we wanna compare social media and teachers, there must be an impact. Then, the question is whether social media can really help us in learning compared to teachers?