Social media is such an interesting subject. Numerous sites all over the world wide web that allow you to be yourself, but perhaps a more exaggerated version. A person that would probably struggle to survive in the real world. Twitter is a perfect example. Nobody is real on Twitter, not really. It's just memes, one-liners and a place for shit-posters to join together as a community to see who can garner the most chuckles from their followers.
Instagram is the same thing - it's fake. A place to post photos that represent this impossibly perfect version of yourself. Makeup, face-tuner, high angles, and filters combine in order to help everyone have the most aesthetic account possible. All my cosplay photos are filtered to shit and I refuse to post if I don't have any good angles so I can confirm that this is all true, too.
What next? YouTube perhaps? Mm, you're right. Maybe not in recent months, but it used to be a place to post the most real moments that could be captured. Not anymore, now it's rich vloggers creating everyday 'content', (not likely), in an attempt to get the most views and the most money. The sad thing is that it works, too, people eat it up and it so takes away from the site and the creators holding it together.
I don't know what the point of this post is, I'm just rambling at this point. Just remember the next time somebody tells you how real they are, they're probably lying. There's no need to be real on the internet. Everything is a fabrication; some giant exaggeration of real life because it's just safer to be that way. God forbid anybody shares their real opinions.
Wouldn't this be a hilarious place to plug my Twitter right now? I'm not going to, don't worry, but it would've been painfully ironic.
Signed,
Elijah.
Meta Sentience.
13/02/2018
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