Is Social Media making us delusional?
How do you find healthy social interaction and connection in a self-absorbed, all-about “me” society that is more focused on receiving likes, follows, and external validation and attention?
I may have social anxiety and I may be an introvert, but I love people. I love human interaction, and I love connection. I love learning about people- who they are, what they love, don’t like, their struggles, their strengths, and their beautiful wants and desires for their life.
My mental health has been affected for well over a year now. I don’t know how to stay away from a platform when it’s all that is known in this day in age.
How do you walk away and isolate yourself from something that just isn’t YOU when you crave social human interaction and connection? I am eager to interact and connect like a fat kid who wants to interact with their cake. Every post is about the following: how toned your ass looks, how toned your abs look, how ripped a man is, how to sell a stupid product from your MLM pyramid scam, how to do a tik tok dance, how big your boat/or truck is, or how much better your house is compared to your friends’.
Why is it that this is all we ever see on social media platforms?
When will people realize that they’re chasing the same thing as the person next to them?
We are living in a World of competition and one-upping and we are growing further apart than closer together.
Marriages are falling apart. Tinder is taking away from the beauty of meeting someone on a city street and being able to have the beauty of real human connection bloom and grow. The beauty of relationships and what they could be has become distorted. Until we recognize that social media is to blame, nothing is going to improve! I read that Men are having a hard time feeling like Men because of Women these days. Women are trying to be equal to men, and because of this, men do not feel superior in the way they need to be, and in the way women need them! Women are trying to stand above and that’s not what God created Women for.
Social media is a toxic platform and a huge cause for so many issues going on in this World. Social media should improve us as a society, but it feels as if it is set out to get into the minds of those who are vulnerable and gullible to keep you intuned to believe what it wants you to believe.
Maybe I’m the one who is out of touch with reality, or the one who is crazy, but we must always remember that there will always be a roaring lion in a herd of sheep. There will always be one who looks out into the world with a different set of lenses.
I feel like those who are awakened, or those who are not brainwashed and/or hypnotized by everything they read or see, are the only ones who can see it all for what it truly is.
Everyone has a different perception, and everyone has a different perspective. We know that. At birth, we are all born looking out into the same world, and as we grow, it is only then that we can program our minds to take in what we want to believe and don’t want to believe.
Don’t be delusional.
