Dark Side of Instagram Ecosystem 🔮
While I was coming from my school. I was thinking about how could our lives be controlled by the Instagram ecosystem. I was just thinking and thinking 😱, then finally I got the answer to this question.
To make this blog post very simple, I considered making a story about a girl, Sophia, who was a teenager (15 years old) when she started using Instagram. But one decision changed her whole life and want to know how then read this 👇
🧒Teenage: When Sophia started
One day, Sophia was playing in the park with her friends who were around his age (14 to 16 years). While playing with them, she heard the name of an app that provides its users to share photos with filters with others, from her friends. Sophia got excited and downloaded the app. As you predicted, the app was none other than Instagram.
In the first year of using the app, she just spent 30 mins on the app. She just used the app for posting her photos as well as seeing her friend’s photos whom she followed.
Instagram was just a refreshing app for her but then, a new feature was out which would change the way people use Instagram. The feature, copied from TikTok, was ‘Instagram Reels’.
Sophia liked it too, but her screen time on Instagram just went up from 30 mins to 3 hours. Then after 1 year, as predicted, the screen time went up to 4 to 6 hours.
Sophia lost her consciousness about what was she doing and she would just scroll reels without realizing that she has spent hours on it.
But after a few years, she went to college where he found her friends using the app and she joined their groups on Instagram. All night, there would be texting each other.
But now she was going to get uncomfortable 🥵
🥳Sophia — 22 years old
Sophia just had passed out from his college and now was a college graduate. But one day, her parents called her and asked her to do a job or start her own business for earning some income so that the Education loan can be paid off.
Sophia just felt uncomfortable, she started searching for ways how she can make money. One day, she watched a video on ‘How to be a digital marketer?’. She watched the video and bought a course on how she can pursue a career in that field. She then started her own business of digital marketing and got some clients. She earned a lot of money from it. Moreover, she got time in which she could scroll reels.
🤔Wait: what’s wrong with it?
Most of you must be wondering what’s wrong with this life. She generated income, she can scroll reels. Then, why does anyone want to leave this comfortable life?
The answer to your question is that she was not on the earth to use her potential, time, and money on all these comfortable things. She could do something which would have a real impact on the world. She could find a solution to the problem. But Instagram changed my whole life.
When she would be young, she did not think of living a life where she just have to post some ads for clients from which she would not buy the products herself.
Social media was launched to connect people but now it’s a platform for making money from people by showing ads.
The purpose of social media has been fading and it will not take soon, that all the big platforms fade with it too.
Thanks for reading this book. I got some ideology of this blog post from 👇
