Social Media, Social Beings
Our life on social media takes increasing space and progressively overtakes the reality of our being. That could be the underlying message of Stromae’s famous blue bird video clip. From an entertainment platform or means of communication, social media has progressively earned more and more influence on our lives and further, on our beings. Nowadays, the influence of social media on the formation of one's Identity is an area of research and analysis that many experts venture in. Social (and not only human) beings have come to internalize and accept the fate that they are bound to external forces in the process of building their behaviors, sometimes shutting down the outcry of their inner character, if ever available to them, that they fear would not fit what constitutes Society. A conception that we can witness, practically, through the common use of social media today. Human beings have been social from the very moment they were, but modernity bringing its own f...