The 'feeling left out' thing is so real. I'm burnt out on fandom spaces because it seems like everyone is buddy-buddy with each other except me, and when you're friends with people they generally will give your stuff more of a chance and more appreciation. My content is good and I know it, but it doesn't get much engagement. It's just hard to see everyone around you hyping each other up when hardly anyone comments on your stuff 🙃 It feels lonely. I realize they might be all idealizing each other on some level. It would be nice to be appreciated like that- but again, at the same time I don't want people to praise my content because we're friends, or because they think I'm someone I'm not. I also hate the idea of a friendship based on what I can produce, rather than how we actually get along as people. Basically I think I need to take a break and come back to the reason why I started writing in the first place: because I love the source material and I love to write! I need to stop looking at it as a source for attention and validation, and find it from myself like I used to. Numbers come and go, but when I've made something I'm proud of, that good feeling stays.
Great video, you present your points so beautifully. Just to play slight devil’s advocate, I’ve discovered more wonderful people through social media than I ever have in real life (Thanks, social anxiety!) … not celebrities or influencers, just People who I identify with, or relate to in some way, or find interesting. I often get caught up on the semantics of “friendship” in this context… I ask myself, “are these real friendships, even though they are exclusively on social media?”… I think the answer is yes, regardless, because the foundations of them are based on genuine shared real life interests, thus, there is an authenticity in each interaction, it isn’t just compare and contrast, it’s functional friendship in a sense. And just a quick point on the social media algorithm, I think it’s so important to reflect on what the algorithm is offering each of us because it preys on unconscious biases and potential psychological exploits of the vulnerable. These algorithms are more sophisticated than a lot of the people engaging with them, that’s terrifying because it’s like manufacturing personalities… and I think this is SUCH a teenage thing 😤😤
Wow, I think this is a substantial contender for your best piece yet; thank you so much for this brilliant, fascinating and righteous video, Liv! God bless :)
I agree with all points presented here because I have to some extent experienced all those problems myself. Interesting fact, my name ISN'T Stuart Keating so my profile is a fake profile technically, but I haven't had the inkling to be callous or rude because I just do not like combative and toxic environments (which wasn't the case 4 years ago admittedly). So maturing my 'internet persona' allowed me to wash away my past and continue to interact as "myself" without actually disclosing who I am. Causing problems becomes boring in the long term lol. I now use a REAL facebook and discord account where I interact with people I meet in real life and it has made me feel more connected to my social circles, so leveraging that aspect of social media has done me wonders. A lot of irl events are on facebook so I'm in tune with opportunities arising around me. But it's becoming harder to withstand solitude where I felt like I was more introspective, and thoughtful about myself with respect to the world. In my alone time, I took the time to learn about many areas where my real life wouldn't have allowed me to go (philosophy, literature, history etc) and that has changed me as a person. It's something I've began to cherish even when I am going out more. However, years ago when I was ONLY my fake profile, I had no connectivity to my real world and sought only online interactions that couldn't develop anywhere because of my fake name, so I was depressed, detached and socially empty. Wasn't a good period to say the least, despite going to areas untreaded. Right now I'm in a good place relatively but the problems of social media is an elusive beast with positive and negative results, if that point wasn't obvious enough. I'm just babbling now but thought I'd mention this.
Btw, using an internet alias which isn't a name is something I've considered, but I was so embroiled in many discussions years ago that I couldn't be bothered changing it, otherwise it would've aroused some confusion, so I couldn't be bothered lol.
Same here, there’s no doubt investment is the key to future wealth, with my current profit of $59,000 made from my investment with Mr MICHAEL WAYNE I’m totally convinced, he’s the best trading broker I have worked with and his strategies are so easy to adapt.
The 'feeling left out' thing is so real. I'm burnt out on fandom spaces because it seems like everyone is buddy-buddy with each other except me, and when you're friends with people they generally will give your stuff more of a chance and more appreciation. My content is good and I know it, but it doesn't get much engagement. It's just hard to see everyone around you hyping each other up when hardly anyone comments on your stuff 🙃 It feels lonely.
I realize they might be all idealizing each other on some level. It would be nice to be appreciated like that- but again, at the same time I don't want people to praise my content because we're friends, or because they think I'm someone I'm not. I also hate the idea of a friendship based on what I can produce, rather than how we actually get along as people.
Basically I think I need to take a break and come back to the reason why I started writing in the first place: because I love the source material and I love to write! I need to stop looking at it as a source for attention and validation, and find it from myself like I used to. Numbers come and go, but when I've made something I'm proud of, that good feeling stays.
Great video, you present your points so beautifully.
Just to play slight devil’s advocate, I’ve discovered more wonderful people through social media than I ever have in real life (Thanks, social anxiety!) … not celebrities or influencers, just People who I identify with, or relate to in some way, or find interesting.
I often get caught up on the semantics of “friendship” in this context… I ask myself, “are these real friendships, even though they are exclusively on social media?”… I think the answer is yes, regardless, because the foundations of them are based on genuine shared real life interests, thus, there is an authenticity in each interaction, it isn’t just compare and contrast, it’s functional friendship in a sense.
And just a quick point on the social media algorithm, I think it’s so important to reflect on what the algorithm is offering each of us because it preys on unconscious biases and potential psychological exploits of the vulnerable. These algorithms are more sophisticated than a lot of the people engaging with them, that’s terrifying because it’s like manufacturing personalities… and I think this is SUCH a teenage thing 😤😤
Interesting. Thanks!
Wow, I think this is a substantial contender for your best piece yet; thank you so much for this brilliant, fascinating and righteous video, Liv! God bless :)
I agree with all points presented here because I have to some extent experienced all those problems myself.
Interesting fact, my name ISN'T Stuart Keating so my profile is a fake profile technically, but I haven't had the inkling to be callous or rude because I just do not like combative and toxic environments (which wasn't the case 4 years ago admittedly). So maturing my 'internet persona' allowed me to wash away my past and continue to interact as "myself" without actually disclosing who I am. Causing problems becomes boring in the long term lol. I now use a REAL facebook and discord account where I interact with people I meet in real life and it has made me feel more connected to my social circles, so leveraging that aspect of social media has done me wonders. A lot of irl events are on facebook so I'm in tune with opportunities arising around me.
But it's becoming harder to withstand solitude where I felt like I was more introspective, and thoughtful about myself with respect to the world. In my alone time, I took the time to learn about many areas where my real life wouldn't have allowed me to go (philosophy, literature, history etc) and that has changed me as a person. It's something I've began to cherish even when I am going out more.
However, years ago when I was ONLY my fake profile, I had no connectivity to my real world and sought only online interactions that couldn't develop anywhere because of my fake name, so I was depressed, detached and socially empty. Wasn't a good period to say the least, despite going to areas untreaded. Right now I'm in a good place relatively but the problems of social media is an elusive beast with positive and negative results, if that point wasn't obvious enough. I'm just babbling now but thought I'd mention this.
Btw, using an internet alias which isn't a name is something I've considered, but I was so embroiled in many discussions years ago that I couldn't be bothered changing it, otherwise it would've aroused some confusion, so I couldn't be bothered lol.
Hi Liv, thanks for this new video :)
*Now with the recent economy, To get Financial FREEDOM you have to be making money while you're asleep..*
Same here, there’s no doubt investment is the key to future wealth, with my current profit of $59,000 made from my investment with Mr MICHAEL WAYNE I’m totally convinced, he’s the best trading broker I have worked with and his strategies are so easy to adapt.
Yes I am suffering from social media
hi liv! just wondering, where are u from
I'm from China originally :)
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Thought this was the girl from squid game.