Welcome, social butterflies

I'm a teenage girl who has recently found herself dying of boredom if she can't be social or if her mind gives up on creativity. Things didn't used to be like this. I used to spend my time roller blading outside, pretending to be a spy, convincing my little brother that during the night I would travel across the sea in a little boat to Spice Islands to see my "real parents". Of course, that was a long time ago. Before I really got sucked into social media, I would write lots of stories and draw lots of detailed pictures. Those were my hobbies. I used to go on Grageband and make up songs using the different sounds they had. I used to record myself singing and read my new favorite novels outloud in my bedroom. That must have been a couple of years ago.

Now, I wake up and the first thing I do is check my phone. I go through my feed to see if I've gotten any more likes. I usually get 30-45 likes per picture despite having 213 followers, most of them just being familiar faces. I look up old friends and try to find their Instagram. I go through the feed of those I follow, envying the lives they appear to have online. But that's really all it is. Just a life online. There's so much that we think we know about the person from what they're willing to show us. But there's more that we don't know, that they are so not willing to show us.

I really feel that social media, or media in general, has taken over our real lives. You go to Instagram or twitter or Facebook and you make sure that everyone knows how amazing your time at this beach has been and what a wonderful meal you ate at that restaurant. But what they don't know is that when you were on the beach, they called a warning for sharks so you had to stay on the shore and that at the amazing restaurant you went to, you found hair in your food and overall you meal really wasn't as good as it looked in the picture.

Most of the time people also only see the good things that happen in your life and it makes people jealous. It makes them feel like they aren't doing as much as you are with their lives or it makes them feel that they're not as wealthy as you because you're constantly posting pictures of yourself from different locations in different countries. People start to envy the people that they think they know without really knowing the person. So this blog is to discuss how media is changing us, how it's changing morals, how it's changing living standards and how it's changing people. Enjoy, my social butterflies!

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