Start Living!

Ding, Ding... There goes the phone again, ringing and dinging showing snapchat notifications and new instagram posts.  Most teens according to www.wvea.org are on social media outside of activities and school for about nine hours per day!!!  I mean that is insane!! Looking at a fake iphone screen and scrolling through social media nine fricken hours a day, is absolutely horrible.  So this morning I decided to go on instagram because I have been taking a little vacation from social media, and I just scrolled through photos and photos of people over and over.  Every single photo I looked at was a person.  People posing, doing fake things, but most importantly trying to fit in.  Social media is a tool to help you fit in, I mean it is called “Social” media right, but I feel like social media has been ruined by teenagers in this generation.  For example, instagram was first created as a photography app where you could edit photos and share them with the world, but more for the sake of photography and exploration, not vanity and self esteem.  People now post just themselves on their instagram and the great time they are having, I mean for God’s sake people book professional shoots just for instagram!! Pages and pages of just people, trying to be cool and make guys or girls like them just makes me sick, honestly.  That is why I decided to take a break from Instagram for about a month and see how much I change.  We are so stuck in the fake and online world, sometimes we just need to look up from our phones and actually have a human interaction.  I’m not going to go deep into this but social media is partly the reason that according to forbes.com we as a generation are socially awkward and incapable of real interaction!  Look up right now and live!! Seriously.  Stop living in the fake world and start living in the real world that is right ahead of you.  Good luck navigating Life. Robert out.