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In this day and age who else doesn't have  a Twitter account, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or Keek? For most people I know they have at least one or two, some even all (guilty me?!?haha). These days we use them to connect to other people, local or abroad. We mostly use them to check on how a friend is doing abroad, see what's the latest on your school's popular girl or even snoop on what people are up to. I know sounds horrible if you think of it but hey, don't tell me you are not guilty of one or all of those. What's worse is that we feel sad and pitiful of ourselves once we see other people's profile and see that they are having the best time of their lives and we are left in the confines of our cubicle mopping. This is bad, very bad. I thought at first it was just me, but low and behold others are feeling the same way. So how can a tool or app that is suppose to be used to connect people from afar seem to just be used differently? 

I read this tweet from one of the few popular (a.k.a 'celebrities') that I follow and came across this very insightful article that I will share. I will be posting the article on this post and I do hope you read on this because the author was right on!  Here are some the excerpts that I really loved.

If you take a look at all your so called "friends" on these social networks, do you notice anything? Does it include a picture of a bad hair day? Did he post about that spat they had in his relationship? Did she give details of her nervous breakdown? No. We edit out our lives in the internet hoping and wishing that we can do this in reality. We want everyone to see what's on the surface.Thus we lose the real meaning in these networks that is suppose to bring us closer.

Let's stop looking at these social networks as a way to boast to the world what we have become or where we are, I am not saying that we cannot be proud of what we have accomplished, hey if you got it flaunt it right? But let's not rub it into each other's face. There's a very thin line between being proud and acting like an ass. Your life is made meaningful not only because of the accomplishments you get but also about the struggles that you went through to get there. This what makes your life colorful and worth sharing.

We spend at least 80% of our time online, tweeting, checking in, taking photos of places and food and updating our status. It wouldn't hurt if we use this amount of time to reach out and make an effort to a friend. Ask them to lunch at that place so that they can get to see and experience the food. So you can share a conversation and they can hear straight from you. This is what we should do to a big chunk of our lives, connecting to people, not the internet.

Technology has already been an integral part of our lives. Let's use it to connect and share to people. 

Munch on this:
Instagram's Envy Effect
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