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“Google me bitch!!!”

If you haven’t heard Snapchat is that shit from girls crashing their dads car to booty pics for the cost of entry if you’re not in it your missing out. Our new internet driven world poses a litany of questions with too few answers. There have been various studies either substantiating or denying mental health based issues formulating due to social media use but let’s be frank if social media is the real world based in the internet we can all agree to the fact that on some level people can and will be affected by it including the normal hate for hates sake, keeping up with the jones’s, and holier than though views many of us hold.

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We all have had friend requests in our various social media accounts asking for “friendship” from total strangers and faced the question of accepting it. Many people see this as doing something right and growing their social media following I ask for what? is social media a 24hr floor model showcase of our lives for others to buy into us in the form of following our feed. We have seen many people rise to prominence solely based on their savvy social media skills those people for the most part had a vision and enacted their plan to get themselves to the end result. The average layperson who posts their struggle meals and horrible fashion sense are they actively trying to position themselves in the realm of say a Chrissy Teigen or Ian Connor two well known people in the aforementioned realms Tiegen with her recently published cookbook and Connor taking tumblr fame to the runway with Kanye West.

Some people may say SweatPant what are you talking about social media is putting people onto how dope you are and garnering fans i.e (friends/followers) I would agree I ask what is the end game if one exists. Philip Zimbardo speaks of the “future focus” in life and the different way we look at life and how that outlook plays into our choices. Radiohead recently took time out to erase themselves from the internet before announcing their new album but that’s Radiohead not you or me years ago people spoke of bad choices with tattoos or picking bad partners will the next phase be bad choices on social media maybe that off the cuff tweet may cost you your job.

SweatPant out…

Philip Zimbardo – The Psychology of time

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