The internet has brought the world together. It has so many great impacts on this world. Like for example online shopping, music online, and marketing business. The internet has also had a tremendous down side. Humans are addicted to their phones and social media networks.

There is a lot of good on your phone. But everything on your phone is consuming your time instead of doing other things. Like instead of scrolling Pinterest you could be reading a nice book or going for a nice walk with your dog. Something further improving yourself instead of scrolling on your phone. The mind isn’t made to be starring at a screen for as long as humans do.

I also believe social media is terrible nowadays among young adults and teens. It has been created to make you want to be something they want you to be. The platforms control trends and what is cool and forcing it on you with ads and your own followers. A lot of people follow people that they have no idea who they really are. It is a bunch of fake relationships for the most part. People also spend so much time worrying about how many likes they are going to get on a photo. This has turned people into Instagram’s robots. People doing activities just for the fact to take of cool photo so their followers will think they are cool. It has become so much about status and how cool you are and the stuff your doing. Materialistic items are so sought after for status and people can’t cant refuse not posting about them. Like for example, a girl gets a new pair of shoes, sure enough you will see them on her Instagram story letting everyone know about them.

I can appreciate how far technology has come and the evolution of the internet and social media. It has turned into something completely different from the start. Instagram used to not be filled with ads and it was simply about posting pictures you wanted to share. How intelligent the platforms have become is amazing. Now it is so easy to market your company, contact people, and purchase items. You can literally clothes shop from Instagram now. Instagram can basically satisfy any need you would have. Instagram in the beginning didn’t even have videos. Instagram today is all videos or “reelz”. Just having videos alone allows you to be able to post so much more.

I think the worst thing Instagram has done is they have become the status of trends. People care more about what they look like on their Instagram’s than they do in real life. People will go to extreme lengths to look cool. Trends shouldn’t even exist. It should matter if something is cool or in style, people like what people like and that is the cool part about being yourself. No one today is being themselves. And if you are then you are the cool one. Everyone has been brainwashed into believing what is trendy.