#SocialMediaIsNotRealLife

Unless you are a "female Instagram junkie" you probably won't know who is Essena O'Neill. She's an australian 19 year old teenager model with more than 612.000 Instagram followers, around 250.000 subscribers on YouTube and close to 60.000 Snapchat contacts .She earned an income from social media, but she has chose to give up with her "social media celebrity" career when she quit from this different platforms describing it as "contrived perfection made to get attention", and called for others to quit social media of their lives. 

She has deleted over 2000 photos with no real purpose other than self promotion. Without releasing, she have spent majority of her teenage life being addicted to social media, social approval, social status and her physical appearance. Social media (especially how she used it) isn’t "something real": it's contrived images and edited clips ranked against each other. It's a system based on social approval, likes, validations in views, success in followers,... O'Neill accepted that she was consumed by it, she spent the majority of her day aimlessly scrolling, she used to spent hours on YouTube, on Tumblr,... I think that the message that Essena is giving is very important, how can we see ourselves and our true purpose or talents if we are constantly viewing others? Many of us are in so deep we don't realise it, we don't realise the power and the impact that it has on our lives. 

Now O'Neill is focusing on a new project called "Let's be Game Changers" with witch she wants to start a movement where someone's worth isn't determinate by their physical attributes or by the social media influence, as Essena sais, she wanted to "give people the opportunity to be free, grow, learn and explore while challenging their own beliefs". With this new project she also want to explain the reality behind their pictures. The results has no waste, I mean, although we probably knew the purpose of her images, it surprised to hear so sincerely from the mouth of the protagonist. She has uploaded some pictures with interesting comments. For example, one of the latest photos that she had show to us, appears a "selfie" of herself heavily made-up, and she comment that she spent over two hours making up herself for take more than fifty different pictures for just publish one in Instagram and promote a make-up brand and, the worts of all is thta aftert all that work an all that time, she went to sleep because she was ill!

She has turn around all social media and a lot of celebrities as models, singers,... have begun to upload pictures of themselves without makeup or without combing and also, a lot of "internet celebrities" has started to explain through their pictures why did they take it, why did they upload on iInstagram or in any social platform,... with the hastag #SocialMediaIsNotRealLife in support with Essena.

I think that the reflection that Essena O'Neill has done is very important, I mean, it show to us the role that social media play in our daily live and, in some people, it's excessively important and this is a problem, it's not health be so engaged and a good example is Essena, that had acknowledged that she has waste his youthfulness worried about things as simple as the number of likes that you get in a picture or the number of followers you have. I also use this kind of social platforms and I'm glad that I can say that  I can live without them,  I'm not constantly cheeking them or uploading pictures. You waste a lot of time scrolling and seeing pictures, comments,... of everyone you want and how you should imagine, in second of batxillerat, we don't have so much time. Anyway, I think that we don't need to go so far and put off of our lives this kind of platforms because they also have good things, but I believe that if you think that they are doing more harm than good, you should think about what Essena O'Neill has said.