Virtual Life
For the last few years, social media has become a way of life for most users worldwide. The addiction to social media is associated with the advance in technology and the increased number of social media applications. Both social media and mass media are vital platforms used for communication. Indeed, mass media platforms such as televisions, radios, and newspapers spread information across parts of the world. Regardless of these platforms’ essential role in disseminating information, it plays a critical role in faking people’s lives.
Television and other mass media applications are commonly used to spread fake life of diverse persons. Most people, such as journalists and other media personalities, utilize these platforms to post or present their phony life that is admired by all the viewers. Consequently, the viewers are convinced that the journalist and other media personalities live in their actual lives, which is not true. All television adverts and other films are always presented attractively. However, most viewers are aware of fake life, but these individuals still adore media personalities. The direct consequence of these publications is that television viewers change their lives according to the phony life seen in media.
The views try to impress their friends and other individuals by wearing new outfits seen on television. Other viewers try to live a lavish lifestyle that they cannot afford. Indeed, there are numerous negatives effects of living a fake life. One of the disadvantages of this practice is that these viewers are forced to spend most of their time on fake life, forgetting their actual life. Besides, these individuals focus much on virtual life and end up losing a sense of real life. The individuals use media to create something different from reality. All these are gathered from televisions and other media applications that are used to spread information. Eventually, the viewers forget their real life and focus on virtual life intensifying their challenges.