The ridiculous generation
Technology is thriving. There are more ways to be comfortable, get things done. Speed is more important and the way we live is faster and easier. There is almost nothing technology can not solve and fast; and our lives have become simpler and mostly inactive.
Social media has taken control of the way we see life; it is not only a way to keep in contact or communicate around the globe. It has now become a way of life where we not only post what is happening to us, but say what we should think, talk and act. Now there are #challenges; all things and actions that we post and expect to have maximum views or as a way to tell the world how cool or adventurous we are. In addition, if we aren’t doing the challenges, then we live through others amazing experiences and adventures from the commodity of our couches.
Social media makes us ridiculous with its way. We are portrayed around the globe; what started as a cool way to connect, now every challenge and opinion seems to be absolute. People expect to find truth where it doesn’t belong: social media is to express not pretend to be right in it.
We may have become a ridiculous generation where we need to feel accepted and have likes so we end up posting embarrasing things that challenge our capacity to be better. We may be more accepted, but at what cost?
Gloria Castellanos
Back in time, cameras were used to capture moments that later on will worth to remember, the point of photography was to freeze one single and natural moment to go back at it again and again. Nowadays we use our cameras not to freeze a moment to ourselves, but to create one in order to pretend to be this or that, to post it and create a unreal image of ourselves for others to see it. Instead of living life and capture it, we live to create moments to capture.