TODAY I WANT TO ADDRESS THE SUBJECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA.I LIKE IT.AND ITS EVIDENT THAT MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD LIKE IT.EVEN IN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA, PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED ACCESS TO IT.BUT WHAT PURPOSE DOES IT TRULY SERVE?DOES IT REALLY BRING US,THE PEOPLE TOGETHER? IS THE INFORMATION POSTED ORGANIC OR FILTERED? DOES IT BREED US TO BE NARCISSIST? I MUST ADMIT WHEN I FIRST STARTED BLOGGING,I HAD THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING. I COULDN'T FIGURE WHAT EXACTLY TO BLOG ABOUT.I'VE NEVER BEEN A PERSON THATS STUCK ON MYSELF. SO WHEN I SURFED FACEBOOK,TWITTER AND SAW AN INFLUX OF FOLKS POSTING FLATTERING COMMENTS ABOUT THEMSELVES,PUTTING OTHERS DOWN,BEING PSEUDO-CELEBRITIES.I KNEW THAT WASN'T HOW I WANTED TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA.IS YOUR LIFE REALLY THAT IMPORTANT TO OTHERS? DON'T WE ALL THINK HIGHLY OF OURSELVES? OR DOES IT MEAN THAT WE TRULY HAVE LOW SELF ESTEEM WHEN WE ATTEMPT TO BEAT OUR ASSUMPTIONS OF PERSONAL BEAUTY AND INTELLIGENCE INTO ONE'S PSYCHE? CHECKING OUR STATUS SEVERAL TIMES A DAY TO SEE WHO "LIKED" OUR POST OR STATUS.I THINK WITH USING SOCIAL MEDIA COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.ITS ALL GOOD TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN BUT WE SHOULDN'T LOSE FOCUS ON HUMANITY. WE SHOULDN'T LOSE FOCUS THAT THIS POWER CAN BE USED FOR GOOD.WE SHOULDN'T LOSE FOCUS ON ALL THE IMPOVERISHED PEOPLES ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO DIE DAILY SO WE CAN BE FACEBOOK WHORES,AND YET WE GIVE NOTHING BACK NOT EVEN AN SHOUT OUT OR PRAYER.SO ARE WE GOING TO HELP UPLIFT THE DOWNTRODDEN OR CONTINUE TO SPIT IN THEIR FACES BY BEING ONLINE NARCISSIST? TO BE OR NOT TO BE,THAT IS THE QUESTION.
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