A Hidden Benefit of Social Media

Everyone is talking about how social media is changing the world. It most definitely is, and one aspect that has been under-discussed is what it does at a personal level.

Social media is an incentive to be awesome.

Provocation to do more cool things, be more interesting, and share useful information.

^My cover photo on tha Facebookz

Doing awesome things:

Social media can be viewed as a call to action. What are you going to post about if you sit around all day on the internet, playing video games, or watching tv? Go do something epic, then share it. Then people will appreciate what you have to contribute.

We all want to share great experiences, and social media is the perfect platform for it. Plus, to some extent, we all want to look cool, right?

Being awesome:

Social media is encouragement to be more interesting. To share useful information. To spread a positive message. To help others. To make people (and yourself) laugh. It’s a digital platform for you to express yourself and share your gifts.

And it also forces you to become more self-aware. Because everything is so transparent, you want to become the best version of yourself, and have your internet personality reflect that. Think about it this way. Who wants to read anything that a Negative Nancy posts? Not me, I’ll hit em with the unfriend button quicker than a squirrel video on fast forward.

So what it all comes down to is this…

You need to get up, get out and get somethin’, don’t let the days of your life pass by.