Gary Shteygart's 'Super Sad True Love Story'

Since its inception about a decade ago, social media has become one of the most successful, and the most popular new media on our society. From a conflict theorist’s perspective, social media isn’t a way to make equality, but to perpetuate and build up inequality within these virtual worlds.
In my essay, I’m going in depth and explaining the article, “Social Media Got You Down? Be More Like Beyoncé”. I will also explain how a conflict theorist would perceive social media, and how there is inequality within it.
The news article starts off with somewhat of an excerpt of the book, “Super Sad True Love Story”, by Gary Shteygart. The writer of the article describes a technology that people use called an “Apparat”, which is kind of like an iPhone, but on a whole different level. People in the book use these machines to shop, chat, and beam their lives for the entire world to see. It also comes with an app like thing called, “RateMe+”, which post a status based on job, financials, and online popularity. After that, the article states that social media is very important when it comes to job opportunities and romance, in some way which we don’t …show more content…
For example, most celebrities post everything from pictures that are a bit vulgar, to typing something that is considered hate or maybe something inspiring. Social Media rewards those who post often. Those rewards could be likes, views, or sharing the video or picture. For those who post a few or rarely post anything are usually segregated from those who are popular. This situation can be in school, with cliques that are big on campus are more likely to be recognized than the geek or nerd in the corner of the classroom. Ordinarily, a celebrity to rarely use social media, it’s unheard of. People would assume that celebrities post everything on their pages, but you would be