A Social Life is a short film about a career driven woman who is living the life she has always dreamed of ... online. She strives to live a balanced life: staying fit, working hard and connecting with her friends; she is creating her 'image' within her broader social media friend base. But she awakes one day ...

No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. Social media have made us more connected, more networked than ever, yet for all this connectivity, we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic). This Loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. Loneliness is not a matter of external conditions; it is a psychological state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y We live in an ...

Know that social media is loaded with sins of omission, exaggeration, and outright lies. Do not base your expectations of others on it. - Being hyper positive on social media is an issue worth pondering. One positive Facebook post on your feed will elicit someone else to have two more positive posts on theirs. This creates a ...

Social media companies are deliberately addicting you to their products for financial gain. Behind every screen on your phone, there are generally a thousand engineers that have worked to try to make it maximally addicting. Innovation keeps you looking at your phone far longer than necessary. Addiction is defined as a harmful, persistent, and compulsive dependency to a behavior ...

Monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos (alone or single) and πωλεῖν pōleîn (to sell)) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of people. Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic ...

We ignore people who are less fortunate than ourselves, who live on the fringes of Society. We care about others 40% less than people in the 1980's did, with the biggest drop-off in Empathy occurring after the year 2000. Reasons for this drop in Empathy is mainly due the increase in media (both social and mainstream) and ...

Scrolling through your friend's list, you think you know the person you are connected to online, but would that person call you if something tragic happened. Would you be on the list of phone calls at all. Many people have hundreds of Facebook friends. But your Facebook friends do not care about you and do not even sympathise ...

You are living in an narcissistic World. You are living in an narcissistic Society. You are a narcissist. You use Facebook and other social media because you believe others are interested in what you are doing. And you want others to know what you are doing. You tag yourself in photos, and update your status frequently. You present an unrealistic portrait of ...

There is a new bright trend in modern Society. People value experiences over products. People are more willing to share than to own. People are shifting away from Western capitalism to Zen-Buddhist communalism. What a heart-warming vision of humanity. Is it really happening? Of course not. It is only a fantasy. We are as selfish and shallow as ...

Why do we not talk to each other anymore, really talk to each other. What ever happened to the art of conversation. You know, When you talked and someone really listened. In todays age of technological advancement, this might all sound like a glorious inconvenience but the build up required to take a phone call whether in ...

It is hard to exaggerate how much the 'Like' button changed the psychology of Facebook use. What had begun as a passive way to track your friends’ lives has become now deeply interactive. Users are gambling every time they share a photo, web link, or status update.  You might dismiss it as a guilty pleasure that we ...

You are focused on documenting and building the history of your life, not on living the life unfolding right in front of you.  It is all about the check-in, the status update, the captured moment, rather than being fully present day to day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKd2QVrQVIM Social media starts out as something you check occasionally, but before long, it takes ...

There is a secret depression accompanying your wrong lifestyle. It is hidden underneath a selection of layers including an exaggerated bravado, drug and alcohol abuse, misdirected anger, and other forms of destructive behavior. Fantastical illlusions are a tool to cope with the realities of your marginalized existence. Parties, sex, and false friendships have given you the illusion ...