Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, IMac. Slogans like "because you're worth it" or "you deserve a vacation". It's due to these kind of marketing in media that is making our generation the most self-centered to ever live. Social networks and media are the source of all this self-centered people.People's opinion are important to have also. We need to learn how we could stop people from being self-centered! If it continues, our genreration might have to face the consequences.
Social networks, I think they are the source of this problem. Social media is making people believe that the world revolves around them. For example twitter or Facebook. These social networks keep asking you: whats on your mind and things like that but actually when you hit post or when you tweet, not many people care that much actually. When people post "selfies" on instagram or facebook they get a few likes. Subconsciously, these likes are making people feel more appreciated.This is the problem though, they start feeling more important than others.
Our generation is more self centered in my opinion. Some might say that being self conscious and self centered is a good thing due to feeling good in our own body and worrying more about our own opinion than others. Although, these people may be right. Society has lead us to believe we should think of us before we think of others. This is quite a problem for the future because others opinion might become more important. In life people decide whether we get a job or not and being self-centered and not caring about your empolyers opinion won't get you that job. If you want to have a girlfriend/boyfriend you need to care for them not just your self. Society plays a big part on the way our future turns out and being self-centered the way our generation is would be like having a bycicle race with flat tires. Some might pull through and finish the race to success but many will just give up.
Five words that could be a great way to stop our society from being self-centered: shut-down-your-facebook-account. Shutting down your facebook account is a great way to stop people from being self-centered. By doing so, people will be less egocentric. Also, people could make a good action once a day. For example helping someone that has dropped out of school or helping an old lady across the street. If you do these tasks once a day, you will start to realize that the world doesn't revolve around you, and that there are things more important than knowing how many likes your last picture got on instagram. Lastly, you could get a job. By getting a job people are showed that if they want to keep that job they need to listen to other people.
Finally, being self-centered has negative consequences on this genreration. Being self-centered might result in a huge increase of the amount of people who don't have a job which could hurt the economy. Being self-centered may cause the downfall of "real life heros". This will also cause a world where technology takes over because people are too busy updating there status on facebook instead of having a real conversation with other people. A world where I'd rather not live in.
In conclusion, social media formed a generation tthat has become self centered, but we need to realize that other people's opinion are also importand for our future. Solutions are simple but we need to do something quick. Or else, we will have to face the consequences. My question is, in 20 years will we still have heros who will still be willing to jump into a fire to save someone and ask nothing in return, or will we be too preoccupied by ourselfs on our Ipods and Iphones to even hear them scream?
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