Social media: the technology of loneliness

I deleted my Facebook account in 2017. I still am off of most of it. The idea was not to utilize my time doing something greater, like getting back to writing or becoming a better person. But, to feel closer to reality, that I escaped on social media. It’s inspiring at times, but for a person like me, too much inspiration is a weird thing.

My Instagram feed had around 450 people of similar mindset or wanting to be similar and somehow it stopped looking revolutionary as they intended it to be. The social bubble simply stopped evolving, the social bubble could be as big as instagram with all its communities. It felt like not just technology, but people were becoming contextual, they were evolving following a kind of intelligence that is artificial.

Just to be clear this started in the before corona times. What was the time like when people went on streets to protest something unjust, and actually were affected, what was the time like when they remembered something without social tokens.

It’s a platform for knowing something and everything, but I don’t know what do people do with that information? Are people still original when they rarely stay with their own thoughts?

What is this rant about originality? I remember saying this once in one of my classes “we all are kleptomaniacs”. I could say this because I believed I had something original in me to express. Original as in un-influenced. Now, I don’t know; I may not be influenced much but absolutely empty.

I have a perfect argument in my mind, it can be substantiated. There are a few people in this world, who claim or are considered aware, enlightened, unarguably articulate. So, they make a few people sit around them(preferably known as followers) and take preaching/answering sessions. They write books, and sometimes in those books, you know that this guy has problems like me and maybe they’re still figuring it out.

Now imagine a bubble, where everyone is that guy, because they shared, liked, resonate with certain posts or people. Everyone is everyone.

You may not see it as problematic. If you do, high five.

(photo clicked in one of those evenings while I was walking and procrastinating)