Unmasking Social Media: The Facade of Connectivity

This is the reality, people. Social media is a sham. It's a facade. It's bullshit. How many of your "friends" would really show up for you when you ask them for help?

I'm not saying this out of some nihilistic pretention toward some higher realization, that's not what this is. This is purely a fact about social media and the dividing lines between the supply and demand of different social parameters.

The illusion of people being closer than they actually are. The illusion of people showing up for you who really wouldn't. The illusion of wasted connections that never really existed in the first place.

The fact I'm pointing to here isn't about making you sad or mad. It's about getting real world feedback and that's not something you're going to get from people on social media platforms no matter how many people might pretend they care, or not.

In the end, it's okay to go it alone. The world keeps spinning. Life keeps happening. You take action in life and if the world ignores you, that doesn't necessarily mean you don't exist. It means perhaps other people just can't see you.

And unless they get on the right frequency and are willing to take action in their own lives instead of leading lives of quiet desperation, they'll be lost to pretty much everything you do and all the moving and shaking you do in the world.