The scroll effect

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The screen generation.

I can’t put statistics into any of this I can only speak from experience. We’ve become organisms who get excited by the sound of a notification on our phones, some sort of adrenaline rush occurs.

We started needing acceptance from absolute strangers. Almost 95% of the people we interact with are people we’ve never met, the other 5% we hardly speak to in reality.

Self-worth is now predetermined by the number of likes and if the number of comments is a storm then you have made it big time! Reposts on stories, scrolling, envy on our minds.

Everyone one is so happy. Relationship goals are popping. Rich kids all over. World’s amazing. Isn’t it?

It is sickening. On one day, you feel like you belong and the next back to some sort of depression wondering where it all went wrong.

All of this is not so bad. Except for the fact that the media has enslaved us. We can’t go a day without checking who has reacted to our posts, stories or whatsoever.

Our communicating skills with the people around us have declined. We would rather scroll and refresh feeds on our phones. This is bad. We can’t have decent relationships with anyone anymore. We fucked up big time.

Road trips, tours or any bonding experience has become less of that and more of a snapping experience, to actually price that you can afford that life, you are happy and everything is going well. Every detail needs to be snapped.

Why do I hate the gram and media in general? It took away emotion. It took away authenticity to who you actually are and what you actually have.

We have muted our emotions by creating memes out of it. We try to silence the actual sad reality of certain matters.

What happened to being excited to just spending quality time with loved ones, what happened to just focusing on what’s important.

When did strangers become so important? When did the meaning of Self-worth change? What happened to real? What happened to who we really are? When did it all lose meaning?

Don’t blame us millennials though. Companies are out there benefiting from this sick addiction and that’s why it cannot be out down.

It was intended for communication, but damn the communication with the people around us could not have been worse.

I want to go back to the 80’s. There’s shit I have to experience without the influence of the media. I want to go back.

Yours Truly

Alliyah Mbambi