Social
Media, Filters and Fear of judgment
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| Karjat, Maharshtra. India |
Today I was scrolling the instagram, unexpectedly
a thought strikes to my mind, “Everything is so perfect, everyone is so
beautiful, everyone is so cool and everyone is enjoying the life and living at
the best”. Everybody is portraying themselves so well and connecting to people
through this platform. Folks are posting and roasting about motivation,
philosophy, fitness and motivation but nobody is talking about their
vulnerabilities, bad mood and bad faces. No one is showing the other side of
the coin. Why the idea of socializing is restricted to the good one of you. Why
we are connecting hundreds and thousands of people without being the real us.
Everyone is hiding themselves and their weakness behind numbers of filter.
I think adding filters in social media platform was the part of mission of social media and the vision was make us
insecure, meanwhile insecurities become perfection. Initially you find them so
fascinating but this is so disturbing when we come to kwon the fact that filters are mostly used to eliminate
unwanted or undesired components in those things which are not good for processing
of equipment or for us or for our health. Knowingly or unknowingly we are damaging
our self-esteem. Online popularity is considered more rather the real life
popularity. Filters are the part of our life since inception whether it’s in
our words or in our thoughts. Now the situation is so scary that, we are
surrounded by filters. We are having filters in everything we are using in
our daily life say it’s our water purifier, air purifier, even in cigarettes. I
don’t understand why cigarettes are given filter,
I guess to fuck us with protection, but everybody knows the truth.
So the social media is saying that our
reality is unwanted and undesired. Think of it. Think of the conspiracy behind
the idea of fake world, where we are living only with the lie of others and
ours. Eventually we all are praising and admiring the lies of each other in the
name of truth. Everyone on this platform knows only the one side of the coin. We
are only entertaining the people who just care about our looks; they don’t even
matter in our life, neither we matters to their lives.
Now the question comes to mind is, if we
are already aware about our reality then why we using filters on social media? Why we have filters in our words? Why can’t we express ourselves without fear
of judgement? Why we hesitate in accepting our own reality? Why no one can be
the natural and real? Who made us to fear from our own reality? Who made us
think about how people will react? Who made us hide? There are lots unanswered
and disturbing questions, but they might say, they don’t give a daam!!! About
what people are thinking, we do what we want and be what we are. But the
reality is, it bothers us, we all have
fear of judgement, I would rather say “fear
of own self”.
The attitude of not accepting others and
own selves is the only reason, we are using filters not only on social media
platform and but also in person too. Running away from the ground reality and patching
it with lies is all what we doing. This whole narrative of using filters is so
internalised in us that we are not recognising what we are and what we was. Even if we want to escape from whole this
conspiracy we will not be able to.
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