The power of social media
Social media now impacts our lives.
For a generation like mine that did not grow up with this revolution, there is a before and after the Internet.
The power of social networks in general these days, where comparison to others is rife
Knowing full well that the reality is quite different, but nothing can be done, you get caught in your own trap.
Who will like your latest haircut, the place of your vacation with your sweetheart, your photos, poses of clothes etc. (the whole point is to have the most likes, and if you have no or few reactions it's the beginning of the end)
A relevant competition, a never-ending quest for recognition.
I often tell myself that I'm glad I wasn't born in these 2.0 generations where phones are grafted to everyone's hands, no one looks at each other anymore, like zombies glued to their screens.
As a child, I really knew how to play, create my own cabin, play with Barbies, marbles and what else?
People met in real life and got to know each other. old fashioned »
I am grateful that I did not have a " portable " (we still hear about the big telephone booths so heavy and bulky that they didn't fit in your pocket at that time, rechargeable via prepaid mobile cards) before high school.
But the Internet came into my life when I was already a young adult, I went through the very complex phase of adolescence without the Internet or social networks like Facebook or Instagram to gauge what I was worth on a daily basis.
I did not experience school bullying linked to photos/videos or other things spread to everyone as we see all too often today in playgrounds, still leading far too many to suicide.
I don't remember asking myself too many existential questions during my adolescence, about my image, what I showed, or anything else because no social network was there to confront me with my image. Of course, like all teenagers, I grew up with my doubts and my complexes but this permanent comparison did not exist.
Facebook didn't really come into my life until 2008, I was already 22 years old, and we agree that the first 2-3 years, the news feeds and everything that was possible to do were not yet at their peak.
I sometimes wonder what it must be like for parents to have children in this generation where they can no longer protect them from others, from the dangers and excesses of this 2.0 life in which they were born and know nothing else. Our strength, if I may say so, is to have lived without it and therefore perhaps have more perspective on the before/after and the impacts that the virtual can bring.
However, I do not reject this world of the internet,
I am very happy, especially in the time of confinement and isolation that we have just gone through, to have had the internet in my life.
How do you survive without being able to communicate with people on the other side of the world, your connection with them is only that, you can no longer travel to join them. So it's a remedy for loneliness in these difficult times.
As well as keeping informed in real time about what is happening in the world (even if I must admit that the alarmist side of the media has not always helped)
The Internet allows professionals to find clients, potential employees, suppliers (if they cannot physically travel to meet them), etc.
Teleworking has become a way of life that will continue in the months and years to come. Without these internal networks and this access to information, different branches of work would have been undermined.
