It’s the eternal question…has the internet come for our good, or for our harm?

When it comes to social media – I cannot find anything that is good for us as a society.

Quite the contrary.

I know there are literally huge numbers of good, honest people doing the basic on the internet. Internet searches, and keeping in touch with friends and loved ones through email or Facebook.

They are far eclipsed by the Twitter and Tiktok, self promoting fakers, though.

It is interesting to know somebody personally, and then look at their social media.

As I read or listen to their posts, and I know that everything they say is a complete and total lie, I wonder what kind of person it takes to even expend the energy to repurpose their life in that shallow way.

The backstory is a lie. The image they present is a lie. Their carefully curated stories are just a 1/100 glimpse of their actual life, which is one of sloth and want. No career, no purpose, they spend their hours obsessing about themselves.

Meanwhile, the real world spins on.

I’m gonna show my age, but Tiktok is the worst.

While I find a very tiny portion of clips shared my way to be funny in the hundreds of thousands posted by the popular “influencers“, what I see from those I know it is complete fiction. From the fake image, to the faked singsong dialogue, to the carefully scripted stories, I can only pity those who have enough time to put their desperation on display. Especially knowing that it’s not seen by even a milifraction of humans on the web.

We are a society of instant fame. Fame is all consuming in the Gen Y and younger set. Trained to not see an honest days work and serving others as things to aspire to, they place their narcissist illness on the internet. Their self adoration reaches heights of self flagellation for an unseeing public. A click ticked off on the views category gives them a Sally Fields rush of “They like me! They really like me”.

Au contraire.

While the vast majority of good people work full time and then some, taking care of others, and worrying about the future of our society, the self absorbed are in a rabid circle of blasting through the daily offerings, trading likes like hits of a substance whose rush lasts only a moment.

Like a drug addict, they look for the latest thing to see or post. To one up the others in their sad circle of despair.

It’s a sad state of affairs out there. 

I hope the pendulum will swing away from this, and soon.

It’s distorted reality for much too long.