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Aug 2018 · 422
The Irony of Social Media
The use of the word social, don't you think, is really quite ironic.

As we sit vacantly scrolling, searching for a tonic.

For as we sit there waiting, hoping for a buzz, our real life friendships begin to dissolve into a fuzz.

Every like, every comment which provides the validation, leaves me sat wondering, what's happened to our nation?

What's happened to playing, imagining , simply having a laugh, and why is it we're so accepting of our social interation being measurable by a graph?

We see the problems and issues as adolescent mental health cases begin to soar, a symptoms of endless comparison to airbrushed models, devoid of any flaw.

Younger and younger become the users of the apps, and yet we still look to query why the fall into social traps.

Can't concentrate, focus, provide a contribution, force fed a diet of social media, leading to dilution.

So in a world of social media, defined by all that's transient, is it perhaps any wonder, our failings become apparent?

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