Social Media is a Bane

Recently, one of my friend went on a party with her classmates, they took pictures and had a lot of fun, then one of the guy told her not post her photo on Facebook, why, because she is a little fat and healthy girl and guess what happened? She just ended being on facebook with a last share which told: Today, my weight gain made me feel ashamed of myself and from now, neither I will look into the mirror and click my pics nor I will use facebook and she went into depression.  And that’s where I realised that social media is a show, its all about status game, it doesn’t matter if you are feeling depressed, what matters is how you look to others and when you see people in your “amplified” circle doing way better than you, you get jealous and then you go into depression and anxiety.

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

This shows that inspite of having a self identity and living the reality, we are living in a fictional story created by social media. It presents us with a standard that is unrealistic and reality that is unreliable and the world full of alterations and filterations. We are not having organic relations. OK, Let me ask you a question Does connecting with everyone you’ve ever met on facebook makes you happy? Does sharing everything with them makes you jump out of your seat with joy?...probably not because it is the laziest most non-commital communication possible.

Now, lets move to facts and figures, as per statista, there are are 258 million users of facebook in India and it is increasing day by day, economic times has said that an average user spends 90 minutes daily on facebook. According to forbes,a total of 37% of parents across India said their child was bullied online, with 14% of that total saying the bullying occurred on a regular basis, as per CNN there are 83 million fake profiles on facebook and social media has acted as a primary catalyst in give a take of fake news which led to death of 20 people and studies by psychology today has shown that …

Ladies and Gentlemen, hear me out, 

Majority of social media users tend to edit and post their most attractive  photos in order to idealise themselves and improve others’ impression of them and if they get a like and a good comment, they just feel they are at the top of the world and their instant gratification mindset triggers a delicious hit of dopamine and they get into this loop. And after sometime if someone comments something bad, they get benighted it elicits feelings of envy and inadequacy by instilling a false belief about yourself and then you go into depression.

At last, I want to say that despite being aware of all these, people lose control of their own consciousness, they are living like robots letting the technology dictate them what to do and the irony is that some amazing people are creating artificial intelligence, giving computers the ability to think like humans however, it turns out that the result is a complete paradox. It’s the people who become like computers, being controlled by their desires, forgetting the values and compassion and the concern for consequences.

Social media doesn’t create meaning full experiences, sad to say that it was meant to connect us but it is dividing us.