Essena O’Neill, an 18-years-old Australia girl, deleted more than 2,000 photos on her Instagram and posted a video on her YouTube page to explain how those pictures “served no real purpose other than self-promotion”. As a popular social media celebrity, her rejection to social media surprised all her followers and also the Australian public. Essena explained how she put on sexy clothes that she would never touched in daily life, wore heavy jewelries that made her uncomfortable, spent hours on doing makeups, starved for a whole day, strategically posed, and finally used several editing photo apps to create one photo which seemed like random. Taking pictures for Instagram was the only thing Essena did everyday, and she succeed. In just two years, Essena had 500,000 followers on Instagram, 250,000 followers on YouTube, and on average she made an income of AUD $2000 per post for marketing products. However, in her video, Essena said the
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Not receiving any comments or likes for posts, not receiving replying for comments, finding out their friends are doing fun stuffs with a group of people they do not know, or even seeing friends tagging someone they do not like can all lead to feeling of exclusion. Social exclusion can be easily induced by social media posts, but can also be easily removed by social media posts, albeit by giving illusory hope. Without social media, we have less access to people’s personal life because no one would text everyone and inform what they are going to do the next. Social media, like a magician who can pull a fluffy rabbit from an empty hat, creates an illusion that everyone is close to each other. Since number of friends is always a strong indicator of popularity, especially in school, teens develop confidence in social status through reading posts. They might feel they know a lot about their social media friends, ignoring how close they are in the real
Not receiving any comments or likes for posts, not receiving replying for comments, finding out their friends are doing fun stuffs with a group of people they do not know, or even seeing friends tagging someone they do not like can all lead to feeling of exclusion. Social exclusion can be easily induced by social media posts, but can also be easily removed by social media posts, albeit by giving illusory hope. Without social media, we have less access to people’s personal life because no one would text everyone and inform what they are going to do the next. Social media, like a magician who can pull a fluffy rabbit from an empty hat, creates an illusion that everyone is close to each other. Since number of friends is always a strong indicator of popularity, especially in school, teens develop confidence in social status through reading posts. They might feel they know a lot about their social media friends, ignoring how close they are in the real