Category: Media Shares

1. A instagram account filled with pictures of feces
2. Coughing cat- https://www.instagram.com/p/BrSciRNHUi5/?igshid=1k6yj3h2cffq2
3. A picture of a egg that broke the record of likes- https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOGulcndj-/?igshid=t7x0xda1btls
4. A influcencer using a shoe to put her makeup on- https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj_OLQgFii6/?igshid=188m4mzg1uac1
5. A pedestrain getting hit by a train

Here is a list of weird/disturbing things I have seen over the years on the internet:

-Salad Fingers

 

-The Annoying Orange

 

-The Mannequin Mob

-This weird looking cat

-These tiny scary looking things

-An Underwater River

-Pigeon People

Video of a squeaky toy being used to play “Can’t Touch This”  

A frog sitting down on a garbage bin while “Day n Nite” by Kid Cudi plays in the background

cartoon ostrich hitting a tee-ball and kicking an old man in the ‘nads

coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee

battlefront meme that makes me rethink my life choices

can of coke on legs stands over a kid with an arrow in his chest

 

After reading “My Instagram”, I found this article that relates to this text. https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/health/instagram-worst-social-network-app-young-people-mental-health/index.html“Instagram worst social media app for young people’s mental health” by Kara fox talks about how social media has a bad impact on people’s mental health these days. People on social media aren’t always perfect. It shows you what you want to see.  People only show the good side of their life. You don’t know what’s happening behind the camera. In the article, Kara states “Instagram draws young women to “compare themselves against unrealistic”, I completely agree with her because Instagram is setting a fake standard for the people to live by. Young females feel insecure because they want to have an Instagram model’s body. What the followers don’t know is most of the pictures are either photoshopped or these models got plastic surgery. People need to stop depending on this thing they see on social media. There’s a whole different world outside of it. Social media is not reality.

After reading the text “My Instagram” by Tortorici, I want to share this article. Fear of missing out (FOMO) has outlived social media, sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram seem to exacerbate the feeling that others are enjoying or living better than you. Although, he was loving Instagram and all the features but realized the side effects. He mentioned, “I came to understand Instagram dwellers as broken people my people. If I was getting depressed, so was everyone else”.  The idea he tries to explain here that you are losing something that can affect your self-esteem causes anxiety and drives you to use social media more and more and you are not the only one. The FOMO is real, it may force you to take your phone every few minutes to check for updates or receive any text or how many likes you receive, even if it means having an accident while driving, losing sleep at night, or giving priority to interaction. In social media around real world relationships in our society today. 

My media share is a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/dejYNDrVE-M), this video is mainly about the impact black women can do in the world today. It helps shows me that you can become and do anything you put your mind to. Being your self is your main priority, the only opinion that truly matters is your own. This video relates to because not only as a black individual, but also as a woman there is always someone who tells you how to be or how go forward with your life, but in reality I have the wheel in how I shape my life. After a rainy day there is always sunshine.

In the story “My Instagram”, by Tortorici I kind of got lost reading the text but in what I got from the reading is that the narrator is basically obsessed or addicted to social media. The narrator talks about how everything they tried to stay off social media, they some how found their self back on the app. For example the narrator tired telling he’s friend to change the password on twitter but still found an excuse to go back on it, which was the needing to know the news more quickly. He was so obsessed that he made up rules to the social media app, instagram.Which us to only follow people that he knows, but eventually ends up breaking that rule. Before reading this passage I never thought of myself as addicted to social media,  but after reading it I realized that I literally do the such as, stay hours on instagram scrolling over and over, and trying to stay on top of the new trends. I feel as if everyone goes there this type of experience where the find an app that they are just hooked to. Literally every chance I get I am on snap chat or instagram. It just crazy how an app can take your whole focus, and block out your surroundings.

After reading the text , I can relate this video with the text .https://youtu.be/wPV_iwsjq80 . It is about Instagram how it ruins people life. Teenagers get addicted to it as Dayna Tortorici was. They thought instagram is cool but they don’t realize the effects that it has.  Sometimes we saw someone’s story or posts on instagram and we thought that this person is very happy in his /her life and he/she is perfect but we don’t. We started to compare us with them that we are not good as they are.. This is also the reason of anxiety when people stress or overthink. By the time, it started to effect on our mental health. People also comment on someone’s body or the way they look. It lower our self esteem. It make us think that we are not perfect. This become reasons of mental issues.  So there are many negative effects that Instagram has in our mental health.

Social Media and Mental Health

In today’s world teenagers including myself are addicted to social media. In the text “My Instagram”, Dayna Tortorici discusses how addicted she is to Instagram. She stated “Each morning I woke up to my phone alarm and rolled over to tap it off and, If I had time, looked at Instagram half-asleep. I easily spent an hour on it a day—in bed, on the subway, or at my desk during lunch”. I wanted to share this article because it covers how social media could make you feel insecure even though most of the pictures are photoshopped. Social media could be toxic since it manipulates you to feel that you have to look a certain way in order to satisfy yourself and your followers. Tortorici says “in truth, my self  image began to prune from swimming so long in the sea of fitstagram, I spent too much time at the gym and worried about my forward head position, an affliction common to people who spend too much time on their phones”. This quote shows how Instagram could set unrealistic expectations on what you believe you should look like after seeing such a “perfect” body. It lowers others self esteem because they feel they could never look like that no matter how much time they put in at the gym. Everyone has a different body type which is what a lot of people don’t understand. Tortorici originally only followed people she knew but then started to follow fitness gurus with photoshopped pictured which led her to feel self-conscious about herself. If you noticed, people only post the highlights of their life on social media which is another reason why low self esteem is common. Not only does social media make you feel self-conscious but it also makes you feel like you’re missing out on life. For example, when you see Kathy going on vacation three times a year and exploring the world while you’re sitting home and scrolling through Instagram. I tend to take a break from social media because I noticed that it actually helps me stay focused on my goals. It’s difficult to stay away from it but it is ultimately the healthiest option.

While reading “My Instagram” it just reminded me so much of this one song “Instagram” by DEAN. He talks about in this song on how many people around the world including himself how there is so many fake smiles on the media or Instagram and throughout nights he would stay up at night scrolling through Instagram feeling sad and empty as he liking other peoples so called happy lives they portrayed. “I’m sinking inside a square ocean”, this can be referred as our phones and how we are too deep onto our phones or attached an obsessed with how people would want to look at us.