Social Media is for Idiots
“Social Media is for Idiots”
What a statement!
The more I stare at this title, I question myself and think am I really an idiot? Am I really stuck in this medium of being glued to my phone all because of social media?
The more I think about it I am an idiot.
16:34pm — I am completely and utterly stupid for constantly using media. All it does is distract and feed me nonsense in comparison to paying attention to the real world.
17:15 — I am not even joking. I just got distracted by social media.
But why am I so stupid? Is it the fact that I always want to know what is going on or just be nosy about people’s lives — but don’t really care.
Social media is so powerful it allows us to communicate and has the ability to make people feel so dumb.
I say dumb because, why are we so amused by such stupid things and then make it go viral. Social media has manipulated us as human being — and we don’t even realise it because we enjoy the “social world.”
Ahhhh Facebook, the social media website where you can find, the strangest, yet weird, but funny and interesting content. This social media website, allows you to interact, share things and poke your friends. Now as an individual you have a choice to interact with as many people as you like because you are hiding behind the computer screen, tablet or your phone. Everybody wants to be a different person when they are online. You either have the troll, the sharer, the joker and the hopeless romantic. All of them are idiots — why do we have these kind of people. There characters come out more when online — online version is much more exaggerated, to either impress or make an negative impact to make a well known statement online.
Now — what I get from the Facebook idiots is Catfishes. How does one simply go online, talking to a stranger and not realise it is not the actual person you are talking to? Why would you put so much trust in someone you barely know. It’s like you wouldn’t do that in the real world. If a stranger approached you on the road and wanted you to go home with them. You wouldn’t go. So why would you do it online, thinking this is the person for you. It is actually laughable. Why do people become so gullible? Is it the freedom they have in the social world? I just don’t know, I cannot get my head around it. There is no limit to what you can do and how you can act, which inevitably turns people turn into social media zombies. Facebook was the social media site that really made me think people literally go psycho over it, from hearing all the craziness that is associated with it.
However, personally I think social media has made me an idiot think about my experience with it.
I never knew how powerful social media was until I joined it. It started off with Piczo, Bebo and Myspace. However, these are no longer popular and they even don’t exist or nobody uses it anymore.
I had these social media accounts from when I was probably 11 years old. By having these accounts, meant that you were cool. If you didn’t have it as a child, you were seen as uncool. Everyone would normally come into school the next day and would be like
“Did you see what she did on Bebo?”
Nobody wanted to miss out on what was happening, everyone wanted to know the latest gossip. So already from a young age, there was a sense of belonging in a certain group. If you didn’t have these things you didn’t fit in and who wouldn’t want to not feel included. Social media tries to include everybody — it is like a social meeting for idiots to interact.
I feel like we are idiots because we are too dependent on social media these days. Everything gets promoted on social media and people put things out on social media so it eventually becomes viral. We need it for personal use and business use. I need it for both things and I am okay to be called an idiot, if that means I am dependent on it. Social media makes it possible for my voice to be heard and for me to get recognition. This is what I needed.
I want to be the greatest fashion blogger. Now I can email various bloggers known in the industry to look at my content but sometimes people don’t even acknowledge it. So what is the quickest way to get their attention? Simply @ them on twitter, which they simply cannot ignore. If that makes me an idiot or social media in that way, so be it. However, I call it using my initiative and taking advantage of social media.
With thanks to Jennifer A.
