How many packs of “likes” are you chaining per day?
Her heart raced so fast that she was sure she was going to have a heart attack. She paced her speed up. She was anxious to get home. One could even see the sweat dripping down her face, in an attempt to take a shortcut, she jaywalked across a wide street, zigzagging her way through it. She almost got hit by a truck, but she didn’t care. She is not concerned. She is just a few meters from her place. She has only one goal in mind. She needs it so bad, she’s losing her breath briskly. She would never admit it, but she is hooked. She can’t live with it. Almost there, she opened the doorway nervously, walked into the living room, frenetically searches for it. She found it. She heaved a sigh of relief as she turns it on. She has successfully plugged her phone, she’s back to Instagram scrolling and double-tapping perfect fantasies. She exists now. She is online again. Lisa won’t admit it, but she is addicted to social media.
Never before a habit has invaded the world so fast as the contagious spread of social media. The screen-staring black-mirrored fantasy has gotten the best of us. The use of social media has seeped into our daily lives, is merely difficult not to see anyone who has engaged in any of these habit-forming technologies. Nosediving their lives away. Silicon Valley…
