Our lives are basically revolved around social media. This present day
and age in which we live is centred around the internet. 80% of our use of the
internet is for social media. Social Media is used for getting in contact with
friends and family who are miles away, advertising our businesses, sharing
important information and creating awareness of an event and so many more. Our
present day lives are run by social media. Unfortunately, we live in a time
where social media forces us to change who we really are and what we really stand
for, to please the general public. Oh how the use of the filters on Instagram can
take a very simple and unusual event, and create it into a masterpiece of
enjoyment, celebration and fulfilment!
We desire so much to be accepted by the
standards of the society that we forget who we really are and it affects the
way we think in our societies. Not truly believing in who you are, reduces
productivity in the sense that; we have fed our minds so much with the ideology
that a filter will make us look better, or changing our relationship status
will make us more respectable and this leads to less self belief and
acknowledgement further leading to inadequate production. The negativity of
social media is killing us slowly and the more we feed into the thoughts on
people’s beliefs and forget what we stand for, the more we live our live for
others.
One article from Jay Baer had him saying ‘It’s not an illusion.
We really are doing more with each 24 hours, as technology enables (or forces)
us to interact and intersect and do and consume with unprecedented volume and
vigor. We live our lives at breakneck speed because we can, because we
feel we have to keep up, and because every macro and micro breeze blows in that
direction’(Jay,n.d). As sad as it is, He
speaks the truth. Technology is moving so fast to the extent that we all have
to keep to make ends meet, literally! Hackers will keep phishing information in
any way possible just to get those few dollars that will keep them through the
day, teenage boys and girls will keep posting obscene pictures with the best of
filters to get attention and approval from society, businesses will keep lying
and deceiving the general public so as to attain more attention to their
products and services. The negativity of social media brings positivity to its
users. This is the sad truth we live with in the year 2016, which we all know
to a great extent but still love the use of Social Media.
(,2014)
Jan,B(n.d) Social Media, Pretend Friends, and the
Lie of False Intimacy Retrieved from http://www.convinceandconvert.com/social-media-tools/social-media-pretend-friends-and-the-lie-of-false-intimacy/
HigtonBro(2014,Jun) What's on your mind? Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y
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