I imagine I will have a totally different life if I have 100,000 followers. I’m a person who almost don’t use social media. I don’t use Facebook, Instagram, Ticktock. I only kept WeChat for family connection because I dislike the software mixing my personal life and work/school together. I like the feeling of having a few close friends instead of a bunch of normal friends. I like face to face interaction instead of staring at the screen and sending text all the time. But I know it will be very hard for me to gave up these platforms if I have 100,000 followers(whatever which one).
I think many people study social media as an outsider’s perspective even if they are using these platforms, which can be relatively rational. And their scholar/artist trait enables them to resist social media craving for a certain degree. But the majority of people do not have that kind of trait. And I never look down the attraction and charm of social media platforms.
I’m thinking about how does the change in social media state change a person. What’s the difference between it and the real-life social state changing. How does social media shape a person? What role does it play?
A real-life social states change in the real world: People begin to say hello to you everywhere: in class, on a bus, people want to be in the same group with you, people like to invite you to parties. A typical high school queen bee movie figure. There are a lot of high school movies talk about a person become welcome but lost he/her original charm. What will the story happen on the internet?
If I wake up in a morning and found I have tons of fans, greeting me, praise me, asking me out, inviting me to dinner, give me a present. If every time hundreds of people click “like” in a few seconds I post a moment.
What will happen?