It’s been few months since I become active social media user, and I have to admit, I am not sure if I like it nor understand it. Help me out, would you?
Okay, first thing first, I know that social media is use to share our voice, our content, or life update, but uh… do it has to be perfect? Or funny or inspiring or something else except sadness and brutal truth that life is not as perfect as Instagram post? Or, maybe it’s just me who don’t get the hang of it yet?
I used my Instagram to share some stories or conversation which I think funny or thoughtful, but then I found out that not everyone likes that. It is not a problem at first, because all I want is to share and practice my writing skills. I know that I am not good at taking pictures, I am not photographer. My pics are so far from good, or beautiful, or even perfect. So, I can understand if my post doesn’t get many likes.
Then, I post something and suddenly I got many likes and somehow, it makes me happy. Happy like, ‘yeayy! People like my post’ and when it’s not get many likes, I will be thinking what’s wrong with my post. Do I post too often? Does it’s not funny? Why do my friends don’t like my post? Is it offending? Am I telling the story wrong? Does I’m not popular anymore? Where is everyone?!
On the other side, I know that they are probably busy with their life or they simply don’t like my post. It doesn’t have to mean they are angry or have something personal against me. I mean, it is just likes. And Instagram post likes. Suddenly it hit me, is this how an active social media user feels? How are they comprehend this situation? Are they not tired of being perfect and all of this bullshit? I mean, it is still social media, not social in real life.
How people can live their life, with all of those feelings and emotion that come up only from likes?
No wonder people trying to get likes from hashtag or making their life look so perfect and even hire a professional photographer for their Instagram post. Don’t tell me that you don’t care or try to shake it off, many people care about likes in Instagram, like a lot of people. I started to think that it’s like the center life of Instagram. How many likes do you get? How many followers do you have?
No wonder people with many followers are proud.
I am not trying to disrespect anyone here, I’m just trying to understand life with social media better, because somehow, most of the time, I feel like I don’t get it. What is wrong with having some followers, which is your friends? Why would you locked up your Instagram account if you are going to accept anyone? Why everyone seems to have good pictures and perfect life??
My life isn’t perfect.
I don’t like to take selfie.
My life isn’t that interesting to be updated every day.
I don’t know how to take good picture.
I don’t have a lot of friends to showed off to.
What the hell am I doing in Instagram actually?!
Oh yeah, and what is the deal with this feelings, the attraction of wanting to get more likes and more comments and followers? I still don’t get it. One more thing, I noticed that people who (looks like) has interesting life in instagram, can turned to be boring person in real life. While people who has boring instagram’s post can turned to be really interesting people in real life.
It’s all confusing if it’s not a little bit of letdown. I have been to couple talk show to meet influencer and get the chance to talk to some of them, and I must say, they are not as interesting as I thought they are. Some of them seems really different than their instagram’s posts and I am not talking about face or physical appearance, but their personality, they are in person.
Maybe that’s why people talking about personal brand so much, it’s almost everything in these days and age. After absent from social media life for a while, it’s all seems new to me.
So many things I have to learn.
