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When social media becomes a place where you start,

Days have passed.

The sun has risen and dipped in the place of the moon and

Yet, I haven’t finished scrolling through my feed.

Social media has created this optic illusion,

That everything you see is real.

Sadly, some persons are envious of things,

Relationship and lifestyles that don’t even exists.

All the wonders of social media unfortunately,

Some of us don’t meet the criteria

It can be good or bad but,

People don’t use it the way they should

As a teenager I have made a virtual home

Friendship developed on social media

Cause me to remain confined in my home

No personal contact with family whatsoever,

Do I need them?

When I have persons who truly understand me on the web

Teenage users have created their own significant language

Shorten words are what we used to communicate in the virtual world

Yolo they said and it became my motto

Upon returning back to reality against my will

I’ve noticed these slang have invaded my vocabulary.

Writing essay and messaging teacher now consist of these slang

It through not thru my teacher said

But thru am use to it,

It will always be thru

There are good things about social media

It has transformed lives beyond recognition

As a teenager it made my daily live

more comfortable in the areas of communication

Social media platform has empowered people to

Express views and thought

They are days when I will spend hours upon hours

Scrolling through a celebrity feed

For every second I glanced at them

was a second I could have glanced at myself

Obsessing over there look

Imaging if it was me
Social media has created this idea

Where persons want to live a life of luxury

Because it the new trend

Envious of their life

It has become an unhealthy obsession

but every minute

I like their achievements

was a minute I could have gone out and achieve

There person on the web luring teenagers

By pretending to be someone their not

Befriending them on the web and using a form

Of trickery

Liking and Commenting on their post as if they are friends

We fall for the bait that was cast

And we began to get groom by grown men.

When did our value started being determined

By how many people choose to follow you

When did our worth divert

To the double tapping of one’s finger

Leaving thoughts to linger

Maybe enough people didn't tap twice

Then maybe just maybe that photo wasn’t post worthy 

When did our identity and our reality become our enemies

That we seek to change them

Would we really live a life of pretend?

Just to stay up-to-date with the recent trend.

Ready to change our looks to fit in.

For every hour I commented on their life of luxury

Was an hour I could have built my life of luxury

I watch their growth

But I was too busy watching the life of others

I never watched my own. 

Some health effects of this endless scrolling

Can be our nervous system being damage by the

Radiation of our devices

How is that possible you may ask?

Our devices start to overheat in our hand

And we pay it no mind

Radiation from the phone is transmitted

Through our nerves causing

Damage to our nervous system

Causing my hands to shake otherwise known as nerves damage,

Thinking it just a faze

After using devices to scroll through feeds

On web for hours has caused little damage to my eyes.

Nevertheless, social media is addictive and fun

Could I use love to describe my obsession of social media platform?

Or maybe addict is the right word

An addict that is addicted to the virtual world

P.S the gossip of the blogs is to die for

People business would always be my motivation for the day.