There is no doubt that as a current paradigm, social networks have invaded the human psyche, through suggestive visual and auditory messages, which are pre-digested, from a false mental ideation of the reality.
In other words, I believe that we have ceased to be, worth the redundancy, natural beings, in thinking and feeling, to become kilobyte-eating automaton beings, that we transmute, our ideas into fantasies, elaborated from our real self-concept, which through the virtual tube, turns into a fictitious self-concept and idealized. In this PsychologyOnline article, we talk about the virtual personality and its seductive psychological masking.
Index
- Use of the social network
- Creating a virtual personality
- Solutions
Use of the social network.
We use social networks, in most cases, such as a virtual mirror, in which, we recreate a perception of those ideations that we believe to be essential in ourselves, but that in reality they are only projections of what the ephemeral social environment in its concepts of consumption, promotes.
We are falling into a parody of the portrait of Dorian Gray, in which our alter ego, we show it to others, as appropriate towards the acceptance and need for affirmation, coming from a virtual world, with friends, who are shown with a thin and made-up social profile, with people that camouflaged behind endless photos and stories, we may never have the possibility of knowing in reality objective.
Creation of a virtual personality.
The underlying problem is when we virtualize our personality, to the point of hide from ourselves and remain abstracted and absorbed in the emptiness of, no longer thinking about who we really are, but who we want to show others that we are.
Thus, we inevitably conceive the idea that our social profiles are ourselves, and that our reality Physics becomes a second plane subordinate to that of that virtual reality, full of kaleidoscopes and distortions media.
We continually mask our own reality, making our wishes replace our true ideas, and thus in the continuum vitae, we no longer have time to be alone with ourselves, and stop so alone, to think, who really is In our abandoned inner being, perhaps, that forgotten human being that underlies, even transcendent, which should communicate in a real connection, with your true dreams, goals, aspirations, desires, feelings and emotions, without restrictions or fallacious arguments, break the portrait and accept being Dorian.
It is that we are allowing our reactions, to be delimited, to simple gestures that are manifested in a continuous and infinite, technological input, in which our senses only need a mouse, monitor and keyboard, as means of expression.
Solutions.
That is why we must reclaim time and space that we have begun abusively, to deny ourselves and our vital importance.
It is necessary to return to our dialectical beginnings, and leave space for reading, and self-knowledge, to occupy a preponderant place in our lives again. Rediscover ourselves in that virtuous solitude, in that sharing within us with our ubiquitous experiences and sensations of the intrinsic being that we have been sleeping in our inner labyrinth.
To ask ourselves again every day, the reason for our existence, and how to learn to better understand our reality; and therefore, thus improve our quality of life based on the quality of our interpersonal relationships.
This is a small reflection that is directed to the collective subconscious, hoping to be a message that can be decoded, in order to serve as a contribution towards the social entelechy, and that we could achieve, reissue our real essence, dethroning that virtual omnipresence, which we have negatively given place within ourselves.
Let's stop consuming so much technology and personalize our ideas, thoughts and emotions to our liking, regardless of what social trends are supposed to dictate and deliver to the mass media.
We create our reality in day-to-day social interaction, without time or space restrictions, we do not allow social networks, they are our main showcase to the world, but, only, occupy the leisure and recreation space that in essence deserve.
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