Social Media and Technology Changed the World

Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, need I go on? In this day and age popularity and self-worth seem to be more based upon how many likes, favorites, retweets, etc you get rather than the people you have helped or the things you've accomplished. It's gotten to the point that people will only do things because "this will be a good picture for instagram" or "this will look great to my friends on facebook". Even though half your friends on facebook you've met once. Who really knows thousands of people enough to want to share personal details?
Communication has changed so much over the last 10 years that I'm not sure our parents even know what to do anymore but tell us that "face to face conversations are better" or "why don't you write them a letter and not an email?". My parents grew up without cell phones, so they at least heard peoples voices. Nowadays we just text someone. Asking someone out is as simple as shooting them a text. However it can take a long time to get a reply, when just asking them in person or over the phone you can get an instant response. I've been a victim of this, 1 week was how long it took them to reply. Now the situation was more complex than that, but if I had asked them (not on a date, I'm not that bold) in person I wouldn't have been so down for that whole week (only to be told no).
We've put our self-worth into devices and social media. Why? Cause we can! I don't know what kind of technology my children will have, or my grandchildren, but I fear that technology will make people become even more anti-social and almost like those fat people in Wall-e.
I would like to end on these wise words from Albert Einstein, and please, remember that even if your photo only gets two likes as opposed to 20, you are still you and you are wonderful!


~MG