Social Media Life, Social media lie.
#Love #Travel #Bestdayever… Everything seems so perfect on social media, but behind those happy pictures, things are not as perfect as it appears to be on the internet. In the video, the main character sees how everyone is showing their accomplishment after workout and exercises, everyone seems so happy, it makes him depressed, and wonders “Why is everyone having a better life than mine?” That triggers him to get off the chair, take his workout shoes, and……. instead of working out, he takes a picture of himself and goes back to his seat…
Paul and I were inspired by one of our posts about Digital Citizenship and a short film about Facebook called What’s on your mind, we want to represent how social media influence us to behave differently online, is it because that it’s digital? so that we will have more confidence? Is it because of the environment? everyone seems so happy so we want to be apart of them? it even leads us to fake our current status, trying to seek attention.
From a regular photo in the album to a filtered photo with hundreds of likes on social media, it only takes few seconds to do it, but it seems so “hard” for teenagers like us, many of us are even being anxious about “posting a photo”. From selecting filters and thinking of a caption and hashtag, it all takes so much longer than supposed to be. All for one single purpose, feedback.
Positive feedbacks make us feel important as a person, everyone wants to be treated or viewed as an important person in the community, so we “carefully” post something in order to get positive feedbacks instead of negative feedbacks, it is human nature that everyone wants to be treated in a friendly manner, but when we fake our status in order to grab attention and feedbacks, it would become a twisted thought.
Now rewatch the video, and see what new messages do you see from the video.