To Paid Or Not To Blend: The Effects Of Social Media

To blend or not to blend: the effects of social media

“Are you sure you want to post that? No one wears that anymore. I thought you wanted more likes on your pictures?” Many young people in my generation face the problem of being judged based on what he or she post on their personal social media page. Social media sites like Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook are becoming the guiding principle to how teens feel his or her life should be lived. Personal brands, ideal lifestyles, and perfect appearances are corrupting the image a teenager has about his or her self. The slanted views created by social media idols are destroying the idea of what it means to be an individual and what it means to love yourself. Society is beginning to turn to social

It was an app that was offered to Apple users; however, the app lasted less than a week because it did not meet the expectations of its users. The type of social media a person chooses to use is solely based on his or her preference. “Social media services, in other words, are scaffolds for different kinds of relationships.” (ALANG, 2016) What people post or don’t post on his or her social media profile page determines the group of people he or she is trying to impress; for example, in reality, a person may never go to the gym to excericse, but because his or her idol post videos about hitting the gym or photos of before and after body shots, that person will say he or she went to the gym in order to get their idol’s like or comment. The title Alang gives the article, “Life’s A Peach” and the name of the app Peach, both portray the deeper meaning to the word peach. A peach is a fruit normally orange or red in tone that appeals to be sweet to the eye; just as social media, the face of an app is what attracts the user to use the app. The inside of a peach drips with juice as you bite into it and the sweet taste is what gets people to continue to eat peaches; similaringly, once a user finds a social media app that satisfies a person’s internal wants and needs, he or she will continue to use it. Social media sites like Instagram, are being used for people to promote personal brands rather than meaningful photographs; as a result, inidivuals are conforming to what is demonstrated as being popular and everyone is beginning to look the same. For example, people will rarely post a picture before photoshopping it to create perfect bodies, the perfect glow, and the perfect lightening. Instead of tenchonology growing with people, people are simply growing into technology; meaning social media sites are no longer attached to the head as entertainment, but to the heart as