Article : Social Media Hypocrisy

I love positive social media posts—heart warming stories, pictures of kids as they
grow, announcements of milestones, thoughtful reflections on life. One of the
great strengths of social media is keeping in contact with old friends, meeting new
people, and expanding the number of people with whom we share life.
Social media is good.
But Social Media can be bad.
Few things are more irritating than the negative political rant, the passive
aggressive cry for help, or the pitiful post about how bad someone or some group
has treated another. Life is hard enough, we do not need to make it harder by
being negative in a public forum.
While I love a good positive post and get frustrated by many negative posts, there
is one aspect of social media which should be avoided—we should never be
social media hypocrites.
A hypocrite is someone who puts on a mask. They play a role in order to get a
crowd to believe something which is not true. We all know hypocrites:
: Behind the scenes they are ugly and uncaring, but in the public forum they put
on a mask of kindness and compassion.
: When no one is watching they are scheming and cursing, but when on a
public stage they speak as though they know God.
: At home they are rude and indignant, but at work there is no one nicer.
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other social media sites have become
a medium by which many people are pretending to be something they are not.
And it must stop.
If your social media persona does not match your real life, you are a social
media hypocrite.
There is a great danger in social media hypocrisy. If we put on a face for the public
that does not have a close resemblance to our actual lives, we make other people
believe we have something we do not have. The danger in that process is that if
other people are doing the same thing, we might be tempted to think our lives
are second rate compared to their lives. And so the cycle begins.
”We are blinded by the Hypocrisy of Social media” also, when you show up your
social media life as perfect which in reality is not then, people who follow you feel
like your life is more fulfilled and they compare themselves with you and develop
feeling of jealousy and envy and also this led them to do whatever it takes to copy
you and they also gets involved in this illusionary web where from the outside it
looks all pleasant and shiny but deep within inside it is clogged, fuzzy and dark.
So let us commit to not be social media hypocrites. We will not proclaim or
portray a life which is not accurate.
We are never responsible for what other people think about us, but we are
completely responsible for what we portray to the world.
Live your life. Post the good parts on social media. But make sure what others
see is somewhat similar to what you are actually living.

Thank you
Sumit Suman