Fake Social Media Life
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There are so many Instagram famous“ celebrities”. An 18 year-old Instagram celebrity, Essena O’ Neill, from Australia announced to her 500k followers that she was quitting“ NOT REAL LIFE- took over 100 in similar poses trying to make my stomach look good would have hardly eaten that day would have yelled at my little sister to keep taking them until I was somewhat proud of this. Yep so totally # goals.” Essena deactivated all her social media accounts, changing the captions of each her photos to her true feelings when they were taken.( Lindsey, 2016)
It’ s been said that we now live in a world of being able to instantly share our lives. We seem to now live in a culture and society where our self-love and self-esteem comes from admiration of others( Jade, 2016), some strangers, instead of from our inner selves. Our phone calculates how loved, wanted and valued we are, by people tapping a little heart. It is easy now to compare our self to others just by how many likes the both of you have( Friedlander, 2016).
There are actual articles such as one on Style Magazines telling us how to fake an“ instapersonality”. They include 5 steps on what to do:‘ take a photo of a thing’,‘ write an awesome caption’,‘ smile with your eyes’,‘ use quotes’ and‘ pretend to do things’. Nowadays it seems that people are obsessed with showing off their lives on social media, so that everyone knows how perfect their life is.
It seems that‘ brag culture’ has made people extremely obsessed with posting their lives all over the Internet, and not actually enjoying it. Society is now a contest and the winners are the people with the most followers and the most likes. It seems that we frequently judge people on their social media profiles, and it is easy to assume that are unpopular or boring by their profiles. But these people could actually just be genuinely enjoying their lives? There are people that genuinely don’ t need to or want to brag online about their expensive luxury items, but have actually got everything that they want( Taviani, 2016; Jade, 2016).
This indicates that even though people do use social media to portray their life and express themselves that sometimes it can leave people with self-esteem issues, lower confidence and not having a feeling of self worth, due to likes. People such as Essena are trying to show women that you don’ t need social media to make yourself feel wanted, she is trying to empower women into a unity of loving themselves, and being proud of their body and who they are instead of staring at a picture pondering whether or not they need to lose weight to get likes. This fake social media life isn’ t a way to live and that women everywhere need to grow their own confidence and their own self-admiration.
Lydia Holland Trend Forecasting Research Document ocument
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