One of the things I have noticed on social
media is that everybody is broadcasting themselves, as if they are celebrities.
I called up a friend and was told, “What, you don’t read my Facebook posts?” he
was accusing me of not reading his Facebook posts to learn about his
broadcasts, of his celebrity status. He was actually thinking, “Here I am such
a celebrity on Facebook with 2000 followers and this idiot wants to meet me. Let
him see my posts, I don’t have the time.”
We may lose a lot of friends that way. And,
truth is, of these 2000 followers whom you call friends, no one cares a hoot –
nada, zilch – about you, what you post, what selfies you upload. It all goes
into a void. And, you aren’t a celebrity, some people have already ignored you,
others are in the process. What you consider as your broadcast has already been
censored by listeners.
With what I have experienced in online
forums – quite a few – I have no illusions about celebrity-dom or being
popular. Sure, I admire those people who get hundreds of likes on their posts. They
have made social media their alternate life, while I see it as just a place to
relax, catch up, stay in touch.
What do you think?
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