In today’s society we have two worlds one can choose to live in. You can choose between the beautiful, real, incredibly hard world or the easy, behind a screen, tailored to your liking, fake world which is the social media world many young adults and teens get trapped living in.

When applying for a job, the employer only know what you tell them or what they have heard about you from others. At least that is how it used to be. What was private was private and that just doesn’t exist anymore. Online today, everyone has a trail of some sort, unless you haven’t associated with any platforms. When employers are hiring they now look for any reasons on your social media you could possibly not be a good fit for the job. People in the early days of social media weren’t the best at content control. Photos from parties, inappropriate language and other content you wouldn’t want your grandma to see. That is why nowadays it is so harped on that you have to watch what you are posting on your social media. It is as simple as searching someone’s name on google. You will be able to find their accounts in just a couple of clicks. It is important to look somewhat professional on your social media for this reason. You can tell a lot about a person by looking through the photos they post, and their comments.

The internet started with little to no rules in place. You could throw anything out there truth or lie, right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. And chances are, since the internet has millions of users, there is bound to be a couple people out there just like you throwing the same bullshit out there. This causes a grey area of what is real and fake on the internet. The phrase “you can’t believe everything you see on the internet” exist for a reason.

Susan Boyle, the YouTube sensation went from nothing to something because how of popular her singing video became. My aunt would listen to her all the time around 2009 I can remember. So I saw that first hand. Social media in this instance really helped someone out and worked in a good way. The problem with going viral is that so many people are lazy now, they spend time trying to go viral so they can have life set up for them that way. Teens on Tik Tok have gone viral and have made a killing off it, millions of dollars for dancing seductivly for a couple seconds. At the end of the day, sex sells.

My problem with the internet is that it is so tailored to the user. The other day I searched for guitars on the guitar center website. Today what do I see on my Instagram, a guitar center ad for a guitar. I don’t like that. Instagram now has a feature where you can shop directly from the app itself. The app is consuming peoples lives and there is not a reason to get off the app. People even get uncomfortable when they go a while without their phones. People crave the connected feeling and get stressed out when they are not connected to the world. People nowadays don’t wanna miss anything, going sometime without your phone and that feeling starts to set in.