RE: It's not always what it seems
Hey Elia,
First of all I would really like to appreciate your concern. There are very few people who think like that. Yes, that's true Instagram and all these social media platforms has done very bad to our lives and we have become more materlistic. We always want to show the fancy and good things. Someone is showing his expensive watch, other is putting pictures from his world tour, one is uploading the photos of food they had at luxury hotel and while others are flaunting their private jets journey. We will have to admit, this is the reality.
This is what we all want to see. No one wants to see me sitting on an ugly place and having very low budget food because we all have that and we all admire that what we don't have.So when we see expensive and things which are larger than our lives it gives us hope and makes us happy. This is the reason everyone is uploading that kind of stuff.
We can do any experiment on steemit if you want? l am sure it would be fun. Like not uploading the fancy things but the simple random things. What you say?
Hello,
You made some really interesting points there! Its true that we want to see the beautiful side of life but does this really makes us happy at the end of the day? Or just miserable as we cannot afford what others do?
Instagram has been formed in a more advertising way and that's what Im not ok with. People are being payed to show expensive stuff that didn't even pay themselves. And Im supposed to like those and go buy them. Well advertisements do the exact same thing in a more "honest" way...
When it comes to photos from all over the world and landscape photography sure I want to see something nice with good aesthetic. But that has nothing to do with the "selling" approach.
What I want to say is that Im sick and tired of the materialistic side of it. The whole show off thing has become massive and life is not about buying and accumulating. I don't even care about what others eat :P
Sure it would be interesting to see if posting the simple are random things would have the same response -even though I think it wouldn't.. The key I think is to be honest with ourselves and the people we want to share moments with. 'Cause overdoing may bring the opposite results :)