Prompts

I love the prompts from bloganuary. I participated in bloganuary last year and enjoyed it. First, it’s a great way to get back to blogging regularly. It’s also a great way to discover new blogs to read and meet new people. Of course, it also helps get the creative juices flowing, especially on days when writer’s block is killing you.

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

I found today’s prompt thought-provoking with an easy answer. If I could in-invent something, it would be social media. Honestly, it’s turned us all into terrible, self-centered bullies with no sense of decorum. We have become inured to violence and bullying as internet trolls hide behind the safety of social media. Naturally, these internet trolls would never be brave enough to say anything or do anything in public, which makes them cowards.

Social media bamboozles people into thinking everyone else is living a perfect life. The problem is most people aren’t and the image being put forth on social media is fake. Or how about the influencers who are impossibly skinny, plastic, and over-filtered that create a false idea of what women look like.  Honestly, I’m glad I have boys, so I don’t have to combat the impact those images can have on a women’s psyche. My job is to ensure my boys can delineate what is true and what is false.

Perhaps in its infancy, social media did what it was supposed to do, which is connect us. Now it’s a bastion of misinformation, hate, fake images, and impossible beauty standards. Before the internet and social media, most uneducated fools had no platform to spread their garbage. Now social media amplifies their inaccurate and dangerous messages. In the final evaluation, I think we’ll find social media did more harm than good to our society.