Social Media

Social media has taken over and consumed our lives. The overwhelming sensation that overcomes me after clicking onto an app has forcefully snapped me back into reality.

It is as if people live every moment of their lives for others, trying to out-do or out-achieve another. Does anyone live for themselves anymore? As if posting is their top priority and everyone has the same job. We have stopped living in the moment, disconnected ourselves to pull out our phones to take pictures to show other people. Do words mean anything unless we have the proof of a photo? We document our whole entire lives. What happened to valuing privacy and individualism?

We no longer appreciate the moment we are in due to the fear we are missing out on something so minuscule inside our rectangular boxes. Everywhere I look, everyone has their heads down in their phone. Memorized by a screen rather than everything else going on and passing by around them. Our real lives are consumed inside a tiny device rather than experience life itself, right in front of our own eyes. Eye contact has dwindled turning ingenuine as the glaze across them reveals where their true soul lies.

Our imagination and sense of creativity has diminished by distraction of constant stimulation and noise. We’ve become disconnected from nature and each other all in the pursuit of connection. Feeling forced and obligated to keep updated on every social media platform that consumes our time in the pursuit of convenience, what a paradox.

Patiences has been lost as we are used to receiving everything within an instant. With the touch of our fingers, we have the world in our hands, but we don’t use it wisely. We’ve soiled our brains and become so spoiled.

Is there anything else left that makes you feel alive?

Let this be your wake up call.

Image by Danielle Noel