TWho is it that encourages people to withhold their likes for "worthy" posts on instagram ? Social media is a confidence killer, every post we make is a gamble... and all of us contribute negatively to it rather we mean to or not. If someone with limited connections posts something and no one likes it, no one comments, what psychological impact would you imagine that has. I see it daily on some of the celebrity sites I follow, people love to "hate" it's like hiding behind a computer screen suddenly makes select people feel powerful or superior, it's like "catfish" on MTV only skewed, otherwise good people spreading their "nasty" wings (so to speak) and getting high on a assumption of "social presence". social media is bullying at its finest and a breeding ground for insecurity. If you see and don't like, does that mean you dislike?! Perhaps people should be forced to choose an option...like feedback on ebay. The customer or reader in this application must choose an option. The options are negative, positive or neutral. Would people who generally pass a photo up with out "double tapping" choose neutral or check negative? or would the majority of people click positive just to be kind? I'm willing to bet that the pressure to formulate an actual opinion, and express it publicly on someones 15th "selfie" in a month would be enough to shut instagram down. I wonder, is it really about our followers, or about ourselves. I propose a social experiment of epic proportions...Instead of a little heart with a little number of likes, a bar graph would be displayed with the stats of your followers that liked, disliked, or felt neutral, and at the same time, your stats would be displayed (how pistive/negative /neutral you typically are then an only the would we truly be accountable for our social media persona, after all we choose whom we follow and who we allow to follow us.
Likes and dislikes and neutral oh my! Whatever would we do?
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