This week brings an interesting topic to make discussions on. When I gone through the reading and watching materials I found out really interesting topics to discuss with you all and also it gave me new thoughts about these social media accounts and this universe.

First of all let’s begin with the article: ““Essena O’Neil Quits Instagram”, she was taken as a teenage super star with half a million followers on Instagram, 60,000 friends on Snapchat and more than 200,000 subscribers on YouTube. She was taken as a diva, a star to whom many follow and many wanted to be like her. But then the world had seen that she quits her own dream land. She deleted every social platform and change the name of her Instagram account to “Social Media is Not Real”. Later she made her own website and with the name: Let’s Be Game Changer” and made the confessional videos there to make people realize that all that glitters are not always gold. She explained the reasons that why she quit the social media and how tired she became while promoting the life style which was not even real. In one of her video she stated that “Social media, especially how I used it, isn’t real. Its contrived images and edited clips ranked against each other. It’s a system based on social approval, likes, validation in views, and success in followers. It’s perfectly orchestrated, self-absorbed judgment.”

Coming towards the movie of the week i.e. “The Social Network”, a film based on the origin of Facebook that how Zuckerberg had made a revolutionary change while sitting in the Harvard. The movie was quite obvious by many of us that how a man who cared very little about money became a billionaire in such a young age but in the process lost his one true friend. The main idea of the movie that I perceived was the change that one thing brought into the lives of many people. The Facebook became so popular I felt like people were so in wait of such a platform where they can socially interact with each other and the distances between them no longer remain a reason of separation.

What do you guys think about this movie?

Do you also believe that “The Accidental Billionaire” is what best describes this movie?

The next article: “Why People Get Annoyed at Celebrities on Kickstarter (And Why They Probably shouldn’t)” brings forward a new face of the celebrities i.e. the famous people did not leave a chance to grab more and more from the general public either in the form of appreciation or for monetary purposes. The Kickstarter was being started in order to promote the little guys who have the ideas to make a change in the world but not the money to support their dreams. An actor/director Zach Braff launched this program and raised almost millions in just few days but then the contradictory from many of the people started to come. People started asking that either the funds are for the Braff’s new upcoming movie? In answer to such nonsense Braff stated that: “I’m not Oprah, OK? I think there’s people who have slight misconceptions about how much money I have,” Braff said in an interview with Wired. “I’ve been very successful in my career, I am going to put a ton of my own money into this endeavor, but I can’t go out and fund what will likely be a $5.5 million movie out of my wallet. If people think that, they’re very wrong.”

For this week’s news post I am sharing an article based on the fact that many of the famous celebrities of this era have taken break from social media at some point in their careers. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/kim-kardashian-more-celebrities-who-took-social-media-breaks/