Sad Reality / Traurige Realität / Triste Realidade / Triste Realidad

The modern World is steadily leading to an intellectual decline. You spend years of your life thinking about the present state of affairs in your life – introspecting. In an era of emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, you choose to stay unaware of the plight the World is struggling with. The more time you spend looking ...

A social Life / Ein soziales Leben / Uma vida Social / Una vida Social

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A Social Life is a short film about a career driven woman who is living the life she has always dreamed of ... online. She strives to live a balanced life: staying fit, working hard and connecting with her friends; she is creating her 'image' within her broader social media friend base. But she awakes one day ...

What’s on your mind / Was hast Du auf dem Herzen / Que está em sua Mente / Qué tienes en Mente

No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. Social media have made us more connected, more networked than ever, yet for all this connectivity, we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic). This Loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. Loneliness is not a matter of external conditions; it is a psychological state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y We live in an ...

Ugly truth about modern Life / Hässliche Wahrheit über das moderne Leben / Verdade feia sobre a vida Moderna / La fea verdad sobre la vida Moderna

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You use your smartphone twice as much as you think you do, an average of five hours a day - that is roughly one-third of your total waking hours. Do you use your smartphone because you are bored or because you are trying to avoid dealing with stressful or unpleasant things in your life. Excessive smartphone use is ...

You lie on social Media / Du lügst in den sozialen Medien / Você mente nas Redes Sociais / Mientes en las Redes Sociales

Know that social media is loaded with sins of omission, exaggeration, and outright lies. Do not base your expectations of others on it. - Being hyper positive on social media is an issue worth pondering. One positive Facebook post on your feed will elicit someone else to have two more positive posts on theirs. This creates a ...

Social Media creates Addiction / Social Media schafft Sucht / Mídia social cria Vício / Redes sociales crean Adicción

Social media companies are deliberately addicting you to their products for financial gain. Behind every screen on your phone, there are generally a thousand engineers that have worked to try to make it maximally addicting. Innovation keeps you looking at your phone far longer than necessary. Addiction is defined as a harmful, persistent, and compulsive dependency to a behavior ...

The Monopoly of Power / Das Monopol der Macht / O Monopólio do Poder / El Monopolio del Poder

Monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos (alone or single) and πωλεῖν pōleîn (to sell)) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of people. Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic ...

The Unseen / Die Ungesehenen / Os Invisíveis / Los nunca Visto

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We ignore people who are less fortunate than ourselves, who live on the fringes of Society. We care about others 40% less than people in the 1980's did, with the biggest drop-off in Empathy occurring after the year 2000. Reasons for this drop in Empathy is mainly due the increase in media (both social and mainstream) and ...

All your friends are Fake / Alle deine Freunde sind Falsch / Todos os seus amigos são Falsos / Todos tus amigos son Falsos

Scrolling through your friend's list, you think you know the person you are connected to online, but would that person call you if something tragic happened. Would you be on the list of phone calls at all. Many people have hundreds of Facebook friends. But your Facebook friends do not care about you and do not even sympathise ...

All the World’s a Stage / Die ganze Welt ist eine Bühne / O mundo é um Palco / Todo el mundo es un Escenario

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You are living in an narcissistic World. You are living in an narcissistic Society. You are a narcissist. You use Facebook and other social media because you believe others are interested in what you are doing. And you want others to know what you are doing. You tag yourself in photos, and update your status frequently. You present an unrealistic portrait of ...

You have become the Selfie Generation / Du bist die Selfie-Generation Geworden / Você se tornou a Geração Selfie / Te has convertido en la generación Selfie

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There is a new bright trend in modern Society. People value experiences over products. People are more willing to share than to own. People are shifting away from Western capitalism to Zen-Buddhist communalism. What a heart-warming vision of humanity. Is it really happening? Of course not. It is only a fantasy. We are as selfish and shallow as ...

We don’t talk anymore / Wir reden nicht Mehr / Não falamos Mais / No hablamos Mas

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Why do we not talk to each other anymore, really talk to each other. What ever happened to the art of conversation. You know, When you talked and someone really listened. In todays age of technological advancement, this might all sound like a glorious inconvenience but the build up required to take a phone call whether in ...

Like Me Button / Gefällt Mir Butyon / Curta-Me Botão / Botón de Me Gusta

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It is hard to exaggerate how much the 'Like' button changed the psychology of Facebook use. What had begun as a passive way to track your friends’ lives has become now deeply interactive. Users are gambling every time they share a photo, web link, or status update.  You might dismiss it as a guilty pleasure that we ...

Out of Balance / Aus dem Gleichgewicht / Fora de Equilíbrio / Fuera de Balance

You are focused on documenting and building the history of your life, not on living the life unfolding right in front of you.  It is all about the check-in, the status update, the captured moment, rather than being fully present day to day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKd2QVrQVIM Social media starts out as something you check occasionally, but before long, it takes ...

You are never Enough / Du bist nie Genug / Você nunca é Suficiente / Nunca eres Suficiente

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Facebook Ego Syndrome is when you tell your friends you are being Facebook stalked, yet you keep your Facebook page open so you can continue to be stalked. Your Ego is so big that you are loving all the attention and so you post more and more pictures of yourself hoping your stalker will continue stalking, making you feel ...

2013-04-13 Natal, Brazil / Feeling Blue / Blau Fühlen / Sentindo Azul / Sentirse Azul

Feeling blue? Taking a break from Facebook might help. Regular use of social network such as Facebook can negatively affect your emotional well-being and satisfaction with life. But you do not have to quit Facebook altogether; simply changing your social network behavior and taking an occasional break from Facebook may lift your spirits. Find some sunshine or ...

Broken Dreams / Geplatzte Träume / Sonhos Quebrados / Sueños Rotos

There is a secret depression accompanying your wrong lifestyle. It is hidden underneath a selection of layers including an exaggerated bravado, drug and alcohol abuse, misdirected anger, and other forms of destructive behavior. Fantastical illlusions are a tool to cope with the realities of your marginalized existence. Parties, sex, and false friendships have given you the illusion ...

About Love / Über die Liebe / Sobre Amor / Sobre el Amor

One of the most thoughtful and emotional phrase has begun to lose its meaning. 'I love you' is a phrase many people throw out into the World, without realizing its full impact. Love is simply just not what it used to be. 'I love you' has become overused as the band-aid that can hold the relationship together ...

Books are Dead / Bücher sind Tot / Livros estão Mortos / Libros están Muertos

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The decline in book reading as another sign of the cultural degeneration that is eating away the World character. Why read something as challenging as a book when you can spend all your time on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram? They are much easier and provide entertainment, gossip and information. Book sales are seeing a welcome increase, still digital ...

Choose Life / Wähle das Leben / Escolha Vida / Elige la Vida

'Choose life' was a well meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign and we used to add things to it, so I might say for example, 'choose ... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship.' Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what ...

You’re Ugly / Du bist Hässlich / Você é Feio / Eres Feo

Cyberbullying has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers. Harmful bullying behavior can include posting rumors about a person, threats, sexual remarks, disclose victims personal information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61DWBdgcJQ Victims may have lower self-esteem, increased suicidal ideation, and a variety of emotional responses, retaliating, being scared, frustrated, angry, and depressed. Cyberbullying can take place on social media sites such as Facebook, ...

Social Revolution / Soziale Revolution / Revolução Social / Revolución Social

It is safe to say that memories are the last private and intimate pieces of ourselves that have not been uploaded to social media for others to see. Every day, everything we see, hear, touch and feel is stored in real time in our brains. Our memories define who we are. In the future this final barrier ...