CravingChaos

"give room for the sunshine that has been blocked by the sadness you choose to let consume you completely."

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Social Media

Why is it so important in our generation to have a certain amount of followers or a certain amount of likes or favorites? Why do we let this define us? Why do we want or not want this to define us?
Social media is taking over the world.
It often controls us when we should be controlling it. 
We just want to be accepted don't we? We want society to look at us and say wow they're attractive or wow they're popular or dang they're super cool!
Naturally we want to be accepted. There's nothing wrong with that.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be accepted.
People want more friends or maybe just a friend. People want other people to be attracted to them or maybe just to receive a nice compliment.
Social media is a way for people to live behind the screen, sometimes people like their social media life more than they do their own.

But you see...the problem with this is that people of our society want to be accepted so badly that social media is taking over their lives.

I am not an acception to my comments previously made, I am just like everyone else. How can I be different? How can I do something that I like without being looked at different? The balance is hard to find and often times doesn't make sense.

Is social media good?

Is it going in a good direction?

Are we controlled by our social media possessed phones?

Where is this going to take the next generation?

3 comments:

  1. i feel bad for the next generation who has to live through social media

    it's a gnarly place to be

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  2. I was thinking this same thing last night.
    It is all pretty messed up isn't it?

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  3. Great questions.

    Social media is a powerful thing. It's good, but as you pointed out, it can be dangerous.

    Who knows what the future holds. I'm just excited for the days I can eat meals and exercise in pill form.

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