Social media and society can be seen and understood contemporarily as each mirrors the other from the following cascaded areas. The areas may include but not limited to: privacy; trust and credibility; political mobilization & engagement; extremism and terrorism; fake news; hate speech; and well-being. This paper aimed at digesting each of those stated areas regarding social media usage as it reflect the society. In a form of discursive mode and explanatory method the paper highlighted and explained some basic answers to the frequent questions as to what, why, and how about: privacy, trust, polity, information, hate, oppression, and general well being in using social media as it reflect our contemporary society