Ever since social media platforms like; Facebook, Instagram, and twitter Started getting involved in news, the way we understand information has permanently changed. Now in order to find the real story we must go to multiple websites, as to get all sides of the story. Now however there are people who will find 1 article supporting their point, but not look at the other hundreds disagreeing with them. Social media has let anyone find a article supporting their idea no madder how absurd. Take the argument “vaccines give autism”. Most people know that this is definitely not true but, the people who think it is find unofficial websites for a person who shares the same opinion and shows that One article to support their theory. So, in conclusion social media has made us look at multiple articles to get no biases and shown us that we can’t trust anything we see right away anymore.
When you interact online there are two main feelings you can get. The first one is joy, happiness, etc. From when someone likes your photo/post or gives a complimenting comment. The second is disappointment, sadness, gloom, etc. This is the main feeling you get; most of the time you won’t get the amount of likes you thought you would and that makes you feel bad, or someone writes a rude comment and it darkens your day or you feel bad because you see someone else doing something amazing, while you’re sitting on you couch browsing Instagram. overall, most days when you go on social media you will end up feeling worse than you did beforehand. Social media is making everyone; not just kids change their personality online, or they filter out all the bad parts of their lives, when I go on vacation my sister always spends 10-15 minutes taking photos to post on social media making sure everything is right and that she looks good this behavior is making us spend more time “getting a good photo” so that we get a lot of likes, rather than just enjoying the moment.
Both in the world of this episode, and the real world everyone acts a certain way to at least 1 person so that they will like them, we act a certain way so that the person we want will like us, and we feel a certain happiness. It seems that in the show you gain points if a person likes you; they will give you a rating and your overall score is shown to all. They can lose point if someone doesn’t like them; they will rate them poorly and that person will lose points. The points are important to her because, it seems that you are treated better the more points you have, as well as if you drop to a certain point you get fired. This kind of life would lead to people changing their entire personality just so they get more points, it would also lead to people not good with social interaction not having any way of getting a job due to their points being too low shown in the end of the clip. Lastly In that world people don’t talk to each other as much due to other people being able to see most of their lives with just a clicker. The world would be split into those on top and the suck ups trying to raise their points.