Social Media

Social Media: In the age of Anxiety:
-“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our

behind the scenes, with everyones else’s highlight reel.” -Steven
Furtick
Social Media the good, the bad, the ugly. We as human people have
never lived in a world that was so impacted, with technology. Humans
have never lived in a period that is socially based on how we prove
ourselves to others.Social Media has been used as compass for many
people looking for direction in their lives. From how we think to the very thought of how we
carry ourselves I think Social Media has had a great impact. Before I dig deeper, this is not a
blog degrading social media, but a blog about being aware of the effects of media. Social Media
can be damaging to us mentally, and physically. Dare to keep reading do not get triggered, get
educated.
I am a teacher, I see students 180 days out of the year. I also coach so you can say I am pretty
close to the youth. I get a glimpse of the lives our children live. I how social media impact their
lives. Not only children, but adults too. Let us be real how many times have we seen kids under
the age of ten with their head in a phone or tablet. How many times do we see children operating
a iPad at such a young age better then many adults. I get times are changing and even as a
teacher we are looking for new methods to teach ex. Digital Learning. When does technology
become too much to handle. Spending so much time on social media leads to false hope, or false
fantasies. Leads to insecurities, bullying, suicide etc. We are humans, our lives was not made just
to look at screens all the time. I have a Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. I am included in this also
but, I am aware how I struggle with social media. I do not seek validation from other people, but
every time I post of course I checking my phone to see who is liking it. I mean don’t we all do
that? I am starting to see the negative effects that is has had in my life.
Even with human interactions now in days, I do not not know whose being real or fake. Due to
the fact that everyone has so many different personalities, or different egos now and days. To
illustrate, most people have three different accounts of social media. Instagram, Twitter, and
Facebook. Those are the main three we can say right? People act different on many different
social media platforms.Act different on instagram, than they do on twitter. That is already two
different personalities being shown and, we have not even talked about facebook. How can one
juggle all these personalities without it effecting us in a bad way. To put it into perspective
people are different on Friday night, then what they are on Sunday morning at church. When is it
too much, when will we stop hiding behind the screen of a phone.
Another negative aspect, is the influence that is being uphold on people. We think if we see
people happy on social media, we start contradict ourselves. That can be from weight loss, too
marriage, to anything etc. People always post the happy stuff, of what a marriage suppose to look
like, but never post the struggles right. We are a generation that like to tell a story, a good story
that missing a few chapters. A story in a sense that is navigated to us being better than others.
Leaving out the real reality of things. We numb our pain, on posting pictures, status, and tweets.
Seeing how many people can hit the like button.
We have to ask ourselves how did we become come like this? Let me pose a question is Social
Media a false Idol? Something that we shouldn’t be worshipping but so many do. Do not get me
wrong there is great aspects to social media if used in the right way. One being a great news
source of what is going on in the world.Social media is also good for business for marketing
purposes etc. Somehow it seems as many people are just so intrigued with their phones now and
days, we cannot have meaningful conversations anymore. We go on dates, and get triggers when
someone ask to put their phone down. How did we get here? Can we keep going like this?

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