Digital slaves: Watch this video of a funny social experiment
Accept my friend request. Follow me. Like me. See my CV, I'm so accomplished. I check into places you can only dream of. Take a selfie, post it. Tag me (but only my good side). Accept me!
What if we behaved offline the same way we did online?
You are constantly online. You can’t even deny it, because you are online as you read this article.
Just yesterday, Facebook and Instagram felt the wrath of “digital addicts” when their servers lost connectivity for some time, at the hands of slick hackers.
Like scurrying cockroaches, people rushed to the next best operational social media platform to vent out their frustrations. Click here to read more about that.
It’s as if the world is in a perpertual state of fear of missing out (Fomo). So social media platforms are forever buzzing. A facebook timeline is flooded with a million status updates per millisecond. And should you ever find yourself blocked on Facebook, Lowvelder has great tips to get you through the pain of rejection, simply click here.
Every second, someone uploads a picture on Instagram. Art on a plate seems to be a trending fashion. Gourmet food which is delicately dished on a white porcelaine plate is the favourite past time of Instagrammers. All you need is good lighting, decent photographic skills and a great filter, followed by the hashtag #nofilter. So why the trouble, you ask? The subliminal expectation ofcourse is “please, please like my post”.
Social Media. Ah… those famous two words.
The digital age really has no indemnity form or ID checks. It is access for all, and with a little lot of data, you may sit in front of your desktop computer or with your slick smartphone in hand, furiously punching the keyboard in response to someone’s unsavoury comment on a website link, which you passionately disagree with.
The question is – and think about this carefully – if we applied the same behaviours offline as we did on social media, who would commit us to the nearest mental institution?
Tech news recently uploaded a video in which a popular Youtuber, Jena Kingsley, took it upon herself to conduct a hilarious social experiment. In the video, she boldly walks through the busy city of New York, behaving as she would on any social network.
Accept my friend request. Follow me. Like me. See my CV, I’m so accomplished. I check into places you can only dream of. Take a selfie, post it. Take a photo, tag me (but only my good side). Accept me! These are some of the behaviours Kingsley applies to real life situations.
Odd but oh-so- hilarious!
Watch the video below:
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Source: Hilarious Social Experiment Captures Priceless Reactions To Social Networking Behaviors Offline
