Thirty Day writing challenge- Day 1

So I've now finally finished the first year of uni (thank the lord...) so now I have loads of time on my hands and by loads of time, I mean until mid September, so as I said, loads of time and there is only so much Netflix that I can watch before I actually go madder than I already am, so I did some googling to find something to do and I stumbled across a thirty day writing challenge.

I am pretty notorious for being very forgetful and disorganised so during this month I am going to make a point of answering the questions that are set, so not only will it keep me occupied for a month, hopefully I will learn something too.

Here are the questions:

So lets hit the ground running by answering question one!

1.  Five problems with social media

pfffffft.... only five, jesus thats tricky....

1. One problem with social media is the lack of privacy, everyone knows everything and even if you think its private... you are wrong, you can no longer say to someone what you did at the weekend because they will know by just saying "oh yeah, I saw that on Facebook/snapchat/twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/twitter" you might as well just dress with you curtains open.

2. What you see isn't bloody real half the time, you only see the best parts of people's life with the only exception is to make a point about something serious, you never see a person go to the shops, get petrol and sit around in there pants at home. We only see the glamorous parts of a person's life, making us want something that is completely fabricated and chosen to make that person look there best.

3. No one writes letters anymore, letters are the most beautiful, romantic, historic and heat-breaking things that any man can produce, you cannot get this emotional response from an email, snapchat or text. You can't show your children the snapchat that swept you off your feet and lets be real here... Kim Kardashians selfie won't sell for millions of dollars at an auction like letter from Marylin Monroe and that because her selfie is available for everyone and doesn't offer an interesting in look into her life, but a letter from Monroe allows us to understand her fragility, the love she shared between Arthur Miller and how much of intelligent and misrepresented person she was.

"You think I am so clean, so faultless, so uncapable of untruth that in comparison you are undefiled? I have sinned Marilyn; I am no better than you in any way. I can hate every man you were ever with but I can’t hate you.

Your lover, slave, friend, father, son and Pest, Art”- Arthur Miller to Marylin Monroe 

4. Nobody talks to one another, I am very guilty of it , I am always one of those people who are constantly checking there phones to look at snapchat, facebook and anything that will distract me from actual human eye contact, the phone is crack for the socially awkward outgoing introvert (me). This allows for a major breakdown in communication in real life, things are misinterpreted easily and the use of a screen to communicate rather than a voice means that people are disengaged from each other more than ever.
Whilst researching for an essay on performance art, I watched Marina Abramovic film "The Artist is present" where she discussed her work, previous and upcoming, the purpose of the film was to also show her development for her piece "The Artist is Present" in which she sat in Moma every day for three months and would look at different people, many had different reactions, some laughed, some took there clothes off and some cried. She believed some people cried due to the recent disengagement that we have with one another due to social media, citing that people don't take the time out to really talk or look at each other due to use constantly using our phones and I do agree with her on this.

5. You do weird shit you wouldn't do in real life.... like really, you wouldn't sit outside the guy your really fancies house for five hours on end trying to look at his pictures trying to figure out if that girl in his pictures is his girlfriend or friend would you? (unless you do... then don't do that, that's a bit odd) so why do it on your phone? its not normal or healthy to be able to obsessively stalk someone for hours on end.

But despite all that, I will keep being a creepy mofo stalking people on Facebook and wishing I could go on someone's journey to Thailand and not making plans to see peoples faces....


Day One DONE