What is opposite of Consumerism?

“Anti-Consumerism?”: An overview

Devansh Trivedi
Aug 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Why does it matter? Because Facebook and Twitter users started getting OUTAGES since the last hour.

Now why would that happen? Because of 4 ‘V’s

1. Velocity

2. Variety : right now this point is not worth talking about

3. Veracity

WhatsApp is spammed, FB is infamous for its fake news, Many blogs try to become popular easily and quickly by posting rumors

4. Volume

Pretty much moderated by Facebook, they compress our pictures and videos
But YouTube still has heavy videos (4K, 8K, 360, VR, and more types coming soon)

But there’s a 5th V that no one cares about : Value…

I’m an introvert. So my Instagram is.. sub-hyper. I mean we know it’s easy to share things nowadays, and there’s filters and stickers and what not..

But WHY !!

People today are ‘Professional Creators’ which is very funny. Like ‘Professional Authors’ and ‘YouTubers’.. Their life hinges on social media platforms.. Which is NOT why social media was created. It was to facilitate exchange of valuable information.

Now everyone makes money out of your blurred perception of value. There are groups of ‘Influencers’ and ‘Networks’ that help creators resonate with this practice. Now if they are always uploading something, I don’t think all of it is valuable.

Where I come from, people make money by organizing workshops on ‘How to start your own blog’ and hundreds of students register from the state. Now that is hilarious. They don’t ask you to check whether you have ‘Useful Content’.

Out there on the internet, I also found Neil Patel who teaches SEO (which is invaluable for good creators). What he knows is esoteric. My point here is

We shape our tools.. and our tools shape us

So I saw the pattern. Today the 2 of the world’s biggest social networks stopped working because of us. Because we have.. ‘opposite of Consumerism’, and I even tried to find a word for it. The best I could find is Anti-Consumerism. But it seems to reflect something else. So let’s call it ‘Creatism’. (Because ‘Creation-ism’ and ‘Creator-ism’ are some philosophies about God, so no confusion there)

I like to believe there’s more important points to talk about on social media than my face. #I’m #Selfless #coz #NoSelfies lol

Now go watch ‘Racing Extinction’ !

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