In our
lives, social media is the center of everything. Whenever we go anywhere or do anything,
even something as simple as eating, we have a compulsive need to share our
lives with everyone. It can even be said, unfortunately, that such an obsession
has transformed the 2010’s to an age of narcissism.
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| various social media apps |
It all
started with the selfie. Yes, even the age-old practice of taking pictures has transformed
into an act of narcissism. The selfie, popularized in 2007 by none other than
Paris Hilton, quickly took the world by storm and was even named the Oxford-English
Dictionary’s word of the year in 2013. This act alone should tell anyone that
American’s are self-obsessed. Shortly after this in 2010, the infamous app
Instagram was launched, and in 2011 came Snapchat. These apps are what sent
many American millennials off of the deep end.
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| 2020 statistics on time spent on social media |
And
although social media apps were just a hobby at first, they now control the
lives of many people- even providing income for those with a big following.
There is, unfortunately, no doubt about the hobby's transformation into an obsession, as Social
Upgrade Co. reports over 95 million posts and 400 million stories are posted
daily, adding to the whopping 50 billion posts already uploaded. With the
average person spending 2 hours and 22 minutes on social media per day, it’s no
wonder self-image is an obsession among many. On that note, I’m going to get
back to scrolling. See you all next Sunday!
