Is it worth it?

Almost every single industry that involves some sort of fame has become a much more involved job in the recent years. Authors now don’t just write books, they have twitter accounts, Facebook pages, and can blog. Artist are not just expected to produce art but in order to gain fame it helps if they are on tumblr and Instagram. Anyone who wants a shot in the business world is expected to have a professional looking LinkedIn page. A politician would stand no chance in a campaign without being on twitter, Instagram, Facebook and theSkimm, not to mention the fact that if they misuse one of these social media sites it could really affect their results.

It is interesting to me that each person, not even just celebrities, now is expected to have so many dimensions. We have to be artistic on Instagram, witty on Twitter and professional on LinkedIn. We have to choose if we want to watch tv on the television set, on netflix, on hulu, on HBO GO, or itunes. We have to decide if we should use spotify, pandora or 8tracks. Or if we want to get our news from theSkimm, the CNN app, the newspaper or on NPR radio. There are so many platforms out there now that little parts of our daily routine have become decisions.

While at the same time that social media and all of these different mediums have made some artists turn into celebrities and have made some politicians stand out from the others, it is also extremely overwhelming and can also have the reverse affect. It helps some people and hurts others. It is just so all-consuming that at a certain point it has to all stop. Right?