Social Media Camouflages

What appears in social media is what and how we design it, tailor it and present it, which is sometimes far, far away from reality.  Social media is fed scraps of the real activities, spiced up further by photoshop,  and ellaborated upon by captions and details which are mostly exaggerations.
As a result of social media, we cannot imagine half of the things we are compelled to do.  We show kindness, are more charitable, more caring, loving, considerate etc.  That is how our posts portray us.  To add  to it, it even makes us seem wiser and smarter, even if all that we are doing great is sharing the post.

The glimpses of our life that show up on social media make us look so good that we become our own admirers.  At times it also makes us sad and we wish that we did have such a great and flawless life.

Social media is the only place on earth where we can be whatever we want to be.  It is a place where imagination has wings.  It is an arena where enemies are friends.  It is a land where everyone and everything appear to be more than perfect.  

Social media is a mode of advertisement for what media does.  It enhances, embellishes, promotes,  leaving it is up to the audience to accept or reject.  But on a broader context, whom are we deceiving?  Other than ourselves?

Social media is a kaleidoscope and nothing more.  Let us confine it to that and keep in mind that if the whole picture happens to pop up, it will be no match for what is being presented.  Let us keep room, a lot of room for the imaginative skill of our friends and not get carried away.  

Social media is a platform to socialize, to meet and greet, to enquire about each other's welfare of each other, to sympathize, to comfort, to reconnect, to reconcile and to built.  Instead, it is used for self promotion, self praise, self glorification and anything and everything to do with SELF.  

Thank you to the designers of social media who have brought friends and enemies together but unfortunately could not keep them together.  If only there were an option that dissolved all differences and made us care for each other rather than  dare each other and gear a battleground to compete with each other.