Facebook Live — Why Do We Feel The Need to Record Everything?

Since visual content and videos have become a bloom in our generation, more and more companies keep on adding their live features, of course to catch up with competitors and trending hashtags. But why do we, the users, the live-streamers, feel the need to record ourselves doing nothing and saying nothing? Is this part of the whole alienation between humans with the unstoppable advantage of technology? I don’t want to blame this (if this is blame-worthy) solely on technology and I choose to look inside me and inside the people around me and what we are looking to get out of all that sharing.

I speak about generations, but more so about the generation having the opportunity to take advantage of low-cost flights, freelance jobs, free drinks at the club, newest iPhones and dating apps, and so on — if we can take advantage of those things, why shouldn’t we? We can’t all be responsible for the rest of the people in this world of ours, can we? I wish for a world that cared more about others, and I don’t mean feeling responsible for other people’s misfortune, but at least progressing in our ways to help them more than we are doing so now, including me.

Facebook Live has become a new trend, and seeing all those constant videos of happy people sharing their moments made me question that urge to share that we’ve been facing for some time now. If we are travelling more than ever and enjoying a freer lifestyle it makes it harder to establish closer relationships with people and it is easier to live-stream a video with all of your friends rather than communicate with everyone separately an explain what you have been up to. However, something always bothers me when I think about social media sharing, selfies, now the popular vlogs — are they just fun ways of sharing experiences or are they a cry for long-lost closure? The more we get consumed by the tech world and its shiny filters, even though surely, some great start-ups and entrepreneurs are undoubtedly working hard out there, we are still going further away from some realness that I like to call it.

What do you think?