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How Social Media Is Charging Too Much For Free Emotions
Or emoticons?
The rumors about Instagram’s decision to hide our inflated or pathetic number of “likes” in an effort to achieve the impossible task of reversing the irreversible, sustained from the allegiance of vulnerable users, who will do just about anything to win those “hearts,” has been recently confirmed, although it will take awhile for it take effect.
Despite the optimistic forecast from trendsetters when calculating the earnest attempts to rewrite the wrongs, that have been amassed to the detriment of impressionable youths, who’ve suffered far worse repercussions— the brutal truth has to be the realization of how trained patterns may not be able to switch off specific addictions.
For me, the ability to hover above the trap doors of suffocating hashtags that are built from the blood, sweat, and tears of countless brand sponsorships, that hold us hostage to the thrill of legions of worshippers, against the backdrop of #bestlives — comes from the residue of an era when boastfulness wasn’t the preferred tool of engagement.
Also, the privacy clause in my negotiations limits the freedom to expose anything and everything in the hopes that my spirited coercion via a vast scrapbook of purposed graphicness, will evoke delighted or empathetic eyes to respond in ways…
