Hello, people of the interweb!
I hope you're doing good! So the past two months went by super fast. I didn't get enough time to write more blog posts here. Amidst the internship, college farewell, my birthday and last finals of my college life, the time somehow passed into the oblivion and seemed very little.
Also, I have been feeling kind of disillusioned for the past month or so. I wasn't able to put a finger on what the reason could possibly be for some time but now I know the reason for the dark gloomy clouds hovering around me, the ones keeping me from getting peaceful sleep at night. And the answer is not too astonishing. Heavy social media consumption was driving the halcyon days away from me.
The way social media has occupied our life is admirable and reprehensible at the same time. Picture this! You're out with your friends and it's all fun and games until one of you decides to take a picture for Instagram. Now, don't get me wrong! There is absolutely nothing wrong with clicking a picture to share it on Instagram. The problem begins when all you end up doing throughout that forty or fifty minute fun time with your friends is click pictures. Only and only pictures along with indulging in a bit of a small talk while the entire "fun time" with your friends converts into a "photo-shoot" session. And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Slowly and gradually, you find yourself doing things solely to share it on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or Snapchat. All of this just to prove the world how genial your life is. After all, that's what everybody else is doing ( or posting, rather). The wide smiling faces of people, the pictures with captions "#couplegoals" or "#bffgoals" and the lengthy love and friendship declarations, when observed without the shadow of these social media platforms tend to seem empty.
The lengthy, heartfelt love and friendship declarations on social media platforms are often one-word answers and forced small talks interwoven with bitterness in reality.The wide smiling faces on Instagram don't even share an exchange of glance in reality. The best friends forever on Instagram are backstabbing each other offline.The perfect couples on social media don't even talk to each other for days in reality.
The Social media is playing its dirty game on you when you hang out with friends just to be able to show to the social media world how cool and far from desolation your life is, when you determine your self-worth based solely on the likes or the number of followers you do or don't have, when you post every little thing that happens in a day online, when you hire a professional photographer to click your pictures for Facebook or Instagram (because people who don't post the DSLR quality pictures online are clearly missing out on all those "likes" and "hearts"), when you stalk everyone too much, when you feel sad because others seem to have it all figured out( or at least that's how it seems online), when you compare your life to the lives of the other people, or when you start posting fake pictures online to show how much fun you're having in your life and so forth.
The main objective of social media is to connect people together but is it really connecting people together? I feel like it's disconnecting people, it's making people distant from each other.
It is not a common sight to find people stuck to their mobile phones' or tablets' screens while sitting in a restaurant waiting for their food to arrive. In my opinion, social media helps us connect to people who are out of our reach but disconnects us from the people within our reach. I want to go back to the time when sharing laughs with each other was not for the sake of posing for an Instagram picture. Take me back to the time when people expressed their feelings to each other in person, not on some social media platform. The time where photographs were clicked only to keep the memory of the special occasions and not for flaunting to the people who do not even care about you. The time when people did things because they wanted to and not because they want to post about it later online.
Using too much social media has made me realize that the life of people on social media is very different from their actual life. I read a quote that said, "The best moments of my life don't make it to social media". And I hope that it would hold true for me.
So that's it for this blog post. These are just my raw and unstructured opinions at the moment. Let me know your thoughts below.
Thank you for reading!
With love,
Natasha
I hope you're doing good! So the past two months went by super fast. I didn't get enough time to write more blog posts here. Amidst the internship, college farewell, my birthday and last finals of my college life, the time somehow passed into the oblivion and seemed very little.
Also, I have been feeling kind of disillusioned for the past month or so. I wasn't able to put a finger on what the reason could possibly be for some time but now I know the reason for the dark gloomy clouds hovering around me, the ones keeping me from getting peaceful sleep at night. And the answer is not too astonishing. Heavy social media consumption was driving the halcyon days away from me.
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Slowly and gradually, you find yourself doing things solely to share it on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or Snapchat. All of this just to prove the world how genial your life is. After all, that's what everybody else is doing ( or posting, rather). The wide smiling faces of people, the pictures with captions "#couplegoals" or "#bffgoals" and the lengthy love and friendship declarations, when observed without the shadow of these social media platforms tend to seem empty.
The lengthy, heartfelt love and friendship declarations on social media platforms are often one-word answers and forced small talks interwoven with bitterness in reality.The wide smiling faces on Instagram don't even share an exchange of glance in reality. The best friends forever on Instagram are backstabbing each other offline.The perfect couples on social media don't even talk to each other for days in reality.
The Social media is playing its dirty game on you when you hang out with friends just to be able to show to the social media world how cool and far from desolation your life is, when you determine your self-worth based solely on the likes or the number of followers you do or don't have, when you post every little thing that happens in a day online, when you hire a professional photographer to click your pictures for Facebook or Instagram (because people who don't post the DSLR quality pictures online are clearly missing out on all those "likes" and "hearts"), when you stalk everyone too much, when you feel sad because others seem to have it all figured out( or at least that's how it seems online), when you compare your life to the lives of the other people, or when you start posting fake pictures online to show how much fun you're having in your life and so forth.
Image source: Google
The main objective of social media is to connect people together but is it really connecting people together? I feel like it's disconnecting people, it's making people distant from each other.
It is not a common sight to find people stuck to their mobile phones' or tablets' screens while sitting in a restaurant waiting for their food to arrive. In my opinion, social media helps us connect to people who are out of our reach but disconnects us from the people within our reach. I want to go back to the time when sharing laughs with each other was not for the sake of posing for an Instagram picture. Take me back to the time when people expressed their feelings to each other in person, not on some social media platform. The time where photographs were clicked only to keep the memory of the special occasions and not for flaunting to the people who do not even care about you. The time when people did things because they wanted to and not because they want to post about it later online.
Using too much social media has made me realize that the life of people on social media is very different from their actual life. I read a quote that said, "The best moments of my life don't make it to social media". And I hope that it would hold true for me.
So that's it for this blog post. These are just my raw and unstructured opinions at the moment. Let me know your thoughts below.
Thank you for reading!
With love,
Natasha
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