What do you think has social media made us perform our lives instead of actually live them?
I've been thinking about this one for a while.
How often do you experience something and your first instinct is to take a photo?
You go to a nice restaurant - story.
You travel somewhere - post.
You buy something - post.
You have an opinion - post about it.
And sometimes even the experience itself starts feeling like content.
So here's the question:
Has social media made us perform our lives instead of live them?
Are we choosing restaurants, clothes, trips, hobbies and even opinions differently because we know other people are going to see them?
Or is this just another way of expressing ourselves and people have always cared about how their lives look to others?
I'd genuinely like to know what people in Ahmedabad think about this.
For it or against it pick a side. No annoying “both sides have a point” answers 😂
We're actually taking this discussion offline as the topic for the second edition of a small debate/discussion event we're doing in Ahmedabad called Hear Me Out on August 22.
The format is pretty simple: people argue, challenge each other, and hopefully leave questioning something they were convinced about when they walked in.
There isn't supposed to be a correct answer.
I'm mainly posting this here because I'd love to hear some Ahmedabad opinions before the event.
So has social media changed the way you live, or are we just blaming the app for something humans have always done?