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Today, i will be writer on the topic, and it will be based on my experience.
First of all, what is social media?
Social media are interactive technologies and digital channels that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.
It was not defined as a place to live a fake life. I use to wonder how someone would wake up one day, and the next thing he/she wants to do is to live a fake life on the social media. Sincerely, this is ersatz, factitious, and very bad, how i wish it can be checked and corrected soon, if possible.
This will lead me to this experience i had which i will like to share with you. It's about one of my senior colleagues back then in high school, who later started living a pretentious and cooked - up Life on the social media.
Here is the story:
One day, i was on the social media, Instagram precisely, i was there trying to check out some things, i then saw this senior colleague of mine, In his post, everything he wore and held were expensive, I then said to my friend who was sitting by my side, come and see Jude our senior colleague back then, he is now living big now, just look at his outfit, his dress, his shoe, look at his wrist watch.... Oh my goodness! These are really beautiful and they most be expensive...... I thank God for him oh, he has made it!!!!! His phone was the latest iPhone. Jude also posted it on his Instagram page that he would be traveling to Saudi Arabia that same week. We were like baba God, don't forget us too ooh!!!! Jude is now in riches, please God bless tremendously via our works too.
Some months later he posted it that he had bought a Hotel. I was like wow! Someone that attended the same high school with us got a hotel, very fast? Oh my goodness. This is really great, I was happy for him though.
This was how he said it in his post:
Hello viewers! This is the hotel i just built, it's a four storey building, and has 55 rooms inside, there is swimming pool there, the jacuzzis in it are really great, it has gym... Just name it!! I can call it a five star hotel. Opoor!!!!
He posted the full video of the hotel, and we were like "wow, Jude just own a hotel which worth millions of dollars?". Wow!!!! He was very lucky, we said. How did he make such big money? Our responses were "maybe it was his social media pages made him such amount!...Or, maybe he got such money via cryptocurrency and the likes....Or, maybe he was just so fortunate one way or the other".
After few days to that time, we heard he had been arrested, and taken to the police station. why was he arrested? The hotel he claimed he owned was not his, it was another person's hotel. In fact, Jude didn't even have any hotel. The real owner arrested him for claiming to be the owner of his property. Now, we don't know if his case will land him in jail.
We latter got to know that most things he posted on the social media were not even his own.
He was living a fake life and most things about him were fake, he claimed to be what he wasn't, he wanted to impress people, but later got arrested.
Final thought:
Always appreciate the life you have, never live a fake life.
Always remember that not everyone on social media are genuine. There are some who live different from who they are in the real life. Some people are faking things. Don't be carried away.
Not everything that glitters is Gold, some people who live ostentatious on social media are not real, don't let them fake you.
Be contented, and don't believe everything you see on the social media.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying everyone who live big on social media is fake in real life, what i'm trying to say is that there are many fake people on social media who claim to be what they are not.
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I can say 80% nigerians live fake life just to get what they want. To work hard to live the life we desire is hard for some people,they want luxurious life in a life they don't have. If you want something you've never had, you'll have to do something you've never done.