Social Media Taking Over for '09 & the new Decade

Remember the days that your parents warned you not to talk to strangers? Yet here we are in 2020 on the internet talking to strangers. Hoping for views. And internet streaming is higher than ever before. (Netflix & Chill anyone?) We've gone from battling for that Top 5 space in your friends'  Myspace list to trying to attain hundreds of thousands of followers on our Instagram pages. The irony right?

There's so much freedom in social media it seems that our awareness in real life seems to be alot lower. Think about it, we dont think about it when we post our decadent meals,  tag the fancy restaurant we died to try out, or when we take that oh so necessary off guard picture while walking into the place that we've made ourselves a literal target. With popular Netflix shows like "You" paving the way, it wouldnt be hard for a wanna be Joe to start peering at you & your nice meal from the distance.
But thanks to social media we've got this connectivity to people around the world that we've never had before. We're able to find out news or hear about events around the globe in almost in instant instead of just catching a 4 minute or so segment on the local channel 4 news. That Manchester bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in England is a good example. Social media flooded with grief soon after the news hit about the incident. Many celebrities and fans of Grande offered words of prayer and words of comfort for the families affected at the time.

Recently, hip hop star Eminem dropped his new album, tastefully titled "Music to Get Murdered By", and boy did social media have a fit about it. On the album is a track named "Unaccomidating" that references the bombing in one of the verses. So you've got the recipe for disaster here: 1) Tragic worldy event 2) America's sweetheart (Grande obviously) and 3) Eminem saying something outlandish (again). Its only natural that the Twitter-verse responded negatively to the tactless line. It's just funny how Eminem has always been considered a controversial artist since the 90s and we usually just brush it off because that's just Marshal being Marshal. The man gave us 8 mile! But now that social media is so prominent in today's society, his public conflicts are being discussed globally.

This new social media driven world is so strange. You can go live on Instagram or Periscope, even track your friends using the map on Snapchat. Social media is evolving so quickly, every year theres a new app to connect to people. You can only imagine what's going to come next. At this point you can bet the world is probably going to turn into a real life Sims game, if we aren't at that point already. The world will be our computer and you can be sure the aliens are going to be having a grand old time playing us for sure.