Selfies, Oscars And Psychology: A SOAP opera indeed!

The Oscars really get to you. No matter who you are and what you do, when you watch the Oscars, you want to be a fucking actor from that minute on. But somehow astonishingly, the awards were not the highlight of this year's Oscars. It was this ‘selfie’ tweeted by Ellen Degeneres. 

A SELFIE! I used to think it was only a teenage girl in the bathroom thing. If you haven’t quite figured the tone yet, I really dislike them. But what I dislike more is that most selfies come with a quote underneath; a deep quote on life, struggles, depression, overcoming obstacles and a bunch of other bullshit. I’ll never understand why one thinks that any fucking part of the face will inspire me to work harder. And I have my doubts on the face too. If the brain was big as the cleavage shown in the picture, maybe the picture wouldn’t be on Facebook in the first place. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness” and meanwhile can you please look at my cleavage and like my picture.

It is quite a trend now isn’t it? Every trend is like an invention of its own. We used to celebrate Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and their inventions. Now, we hope to be the inventor of the next thing that will go viral over the Internet. The person who invented the ‘selfie’ must be feeling like a true genius. Einstein must be proud!

The Internet and technology have changed the way we function.

But the truth is, the virtual world couldn’t be more different than our real world. Can you imagine being constantly followed, having tabs kept on you, getting an alert when you do something and all this by complete strangers. Not 1 or 2 strangers but hundreds and thousands of them. And you want more strangers to know what you’re doing! It is never enough! If there are 100 strangers following you, you want a thousand. If you have a thousand, you want a million. Well you might not get a million people to follow you, but the appetite is there!

And you simply enjoy all of that. It’s like you become a movie star (The feeling you get after the Oscars as I mentioned before, accompanied by the false feeling of already being an Oscar winner). But you are actually shit. You have a boring job and you’re not the funniest guy around but twitter gives you the chance to be anything you want to be. It’s like Las Vegas except the gambling and the whores.

Before one goes on and begins to praise the Internet for all its magnificence, I request you to remember that the Internet cannot save Ukraine from a potential Russian attack. Yes it might be powerful, but it shouldn’t control your life.