#FalseInfluence

[caesarandthecity]

The Marketplace of Social Media

What are social media platforms if not massive marketplaces where companies push products and services through influencers who do nothing but promote more consumerism? People sell themselves, crafting images that don’t exist, posting lives they don’t actually live. The illusion is more appealing than the raw truth. Beautiful photos? They lack what is real. They lack true beauty. They borrow quotes from authors they’ve never read, words they sometimes can’t even pronounce—all to sell a version of themselves that isn’t rea