There are approximately 5.2 Billion Social Media users among the Human population of Earth.
That is roughly 64% of the total global Human population.
Across the planet, the average time spent per day per person on Social Media is 2 hours and 23 minutes.
Social Media is not "anti-social", in spite of its serious deleterious effects on a significant proportion of its participants. In many ways it is the ultimate expression of Socialism - Being 'Social'.
It is also one of the most effective, accessible marketing tools ever invented.
It is a publishing medium par excellence. This needs re-iterating. Social media is a publishing platform - with highly toxic, highly radioactive levels of feedback. It is a publishing platform.
A gateway for those seeking attention, validation and sales.
§ This is the POV shift. § This is all I need it to be. §
When your identity is not being constantly reflected - projected back [on] to you through the perverse lens of the screen, you regain more significant control of your Self. One's Identity is one of the most important, primary psychological foundations of Being Human - Homo Sapiens.
Control of Choice - Identity is Yours - it always was actually.
Privacy is not loneliness.
Silence is not emptiness.
Playing For the audience is not the same as Playing To the audience, in the same way as Identifying AS, is not the same as Being identified AS, or Identifying WITH.
Identity is a state of Being. Identity is Conscious Self Knowledge AND UnKnowledge - Curiosity - Who Am I? I Am Not You.
How wise is it to publish/broadcast/expose your UnKnowingness to the gaze of Humans everywhere and expect their response to be anything other than illogical?
A Performance is simply that. Alice Cooper is a character created and played by the performer Vincent Damon Furnier. Batman is a second level character created by the artist Bob Kane and the writer Bill Finger in the 1930's as the alter-ego of the fictional character Bruce Wayne.
Daniel Radcliffe is not Harry Potter.
Refusing to reduce or diminish your existence to reels, shorts, highlights, captions, likes, comments - refusing to publish, to expose your Self to all the poisonous, carcinogenic feedback, does not mean Being Insignificant. Just because the world doesn't continuously acknowledge your presence, does not mean you don't exist. In fact, exactly the opposite of that is the Truth. You continue to exist IN Spite of the continuous lack of acknowledgement. And that is a very, very 'Good Thing'!
