Social Media Therapy Part 1

We do a mental comparison and define who we are based on if we have someone else's colour of red lipstick or pair of shoes and if we do not then we become utterly useless.
There is so much harm caused by putting our nose down into our phones and I think it is high-time we stop ignoring it.

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SocialMedia Therapy Poem

THIS IS SOMETHING WE ALL NEED, EVEN I,

Eyeballs away from the screen into undiluted light,

Waiting to pierce through my soul to show me the path.

But blocked out by images of all those I follow on Instagram and Facebook, disrupting this light,

Light waiting to fall on the shadows of my questions, Who am I? Where am I? Whose am I?

But the light is blocked out because all it sees is the reflection of the dress of that chic, the muscle of that bloke, the cute picture of that couple and the color of the red lipstick she has on.

Every second I look down into my phone, my heart starts beating faster,

My hands fondling through my feeds, migrating from the picture to the likers, do I know them, what are the up to? Oh wow she looks so perfect, oh wow, I wish my business was just like hers, wow I wish my life was hers!

I step out to the loo and as I take my phone along, another picture is uploaded and I defecate in misery.

The light still hanging around the gates of my eyes, waiting to enter in, if only I could look up and stay up.

If only I could look up, and get to work,
If only I could look up, and talk to my neighbor,

If only I could look up, and put my ideas down,

If only I could look up and stop my mental comparison,

If only I could look up and appreciate my own,

If only I could look up and drop that phone,

Just maybe I would be the one on people’s feeds,

Just maybe I would be the one making the impact

Just maybe I would be the one distributing light,

Just maybe I would be the one hanging around superstars.

Just maybe I would be the one on the cover of global fliers,

Just maybe I would be the one on that stage, speaking life

If I could drop my phone and look up,

Just maybe,

I might stay up.

Technological signs of true confusion

1)      If he/she likes your Facebook status/group, they are very present and supportive.

2)      If he/she puts your picture up on his BBM, they are not ashamed of you.

3)      If he/she indicates he is in a relationship with you on Facebook, they are declaring you are the one!

4)      If he/she randomly puts up your name and love in the same status on BBM they are a keeper.

5)      If he/she writes love notes and cc your name on Facebook, he/she has no secret.

6)      If you are with him/her and he/she is BBing, it must be a girl/boy and you should watch out!

7)      If you have been with him/her and have not spoken to his/her parents or friends or none of them are your friends on Facebook or BBM, He/she is not sure of you.

8)      We use technology to exchange words, make our minds known and indirectly insult one another.

9)      We use status messages as therapy sessions

10)   If he/she puts up another person picture when you are dating, then that’s the end!

We use technology to judge true declaration of love and unconsciously build regulations on what we should watch out for via our subconscious behaviours towards technological off springs.

Have we ever wondered?

1)      How many of the relationship status change from relationship to single on Facebook in a day?

2)      How many of the love declared profusely on Facebook couple send up in divorces?

3)       The personality of the person with the Facebook account or Blackberry?

4)      In as much as face book and BB are extroverts, what if your partner is an introvert?

5)      Why you should judge someone based on what they portray via a device?

6)      How many very perfect pictures have very unhappy personalities?

7)      How many I LOVE YOU on technological platforms might seem directed to one person but the writer put no name on it, hence maybe meant for 2 or more people?

8)      How we have so many virtual real friends but in reality the only friend we have is that laptop or blackberry?

9)      Why it is so easy to type out a conversation that to speak out a conversation?

10)   Why we know when someone is shouting at us just by looking at the words and when someone really loves us by looking at the words?

11)   Why the amount of likes on a picture or a post is directly proportional to our self-confidence?

My point:  We are definitely adapting and evolving creatures. Some of my signs above are innocent and might be genuine; in fact some of the positive ones would bring a big smile to my face. Who does not want to have public affection of Love?!

  My point is that we are modifing devices to satisfy our need, to remind of us things when we have a brain, to talk to people when we have our mouth, and some other mundane functions.

I am guilty of thinking my phone is able to portray what I feel through technological neurones to another phone and then relate it to the 2^nd or 3^rd party, but really? What are we really doing?