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The social media world as it stands today is an entire world on its own, a world that everyone wants to belong to and make a mark in. A world that tells the complete opposite of a person based on the packaging of the account...it's just like we have it here on Hive Blockchain; we only believe what an account puts up here as his or her life. It's a world where everyone appears good, kind, and genuine, meanwhile the real life is the complete opposite of it.
With all the opposite lifestyles being displayed on social media accounts and with the way we (a lot of us) have tagged social media life as fake life, I have a different view on this as to how we should judge social media accounts based on their profiles (what they post often).
I go with the opinion of taking a social media account profile to be their real life
The common saying "addressing someone by the way he dresses" comes to play here...
Social media is a virtual world connected to many people who don't have access to one's real life, and the only way anyone could decode the personal lifestyle of someone is via their profile. If an account is showing off the opposite side of his life, so be it; let the people take it like that.
Why did I say that??
Social media is practically a free world; you're what you say you are, except someone takes it personal to dig deep into the offline world of the person.
Taking it down to celebrities on social media because they're the frontline when it comes to social media life. No doubt, most of them are completely living the opposite life on social media, with a lot of packaging, swag, and flattering compared to their real lives, but we can't dispute the fact that that's what makes them celebrities; their social media flamboyant lifestyle is what will attract those ambassadorial deals to them, so they have to live it, it's not a crime.
Using this blockchain as a case study, we have a lot of accounts that have large HP in their wallets, and we don't know if these funds were borrowed to stake up the large HP or if they're really rich in real life. Should we now quickly assume it's a fake life and possibly go around digging up their real life before we believe? It's not necessarily; we should take it as the way they displayed it and move on with life; after all, it's their life, and if you feel like requesting or begging for money from them, go ahead.
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The only alarming issue as to the genuineness of someone's social media account is insecurity.
I have a large number of friends on Facebook because that's where I started my social media life, and a good number of them are people that I know at their houses.
During the days I was responding to chats, I used to get chats begging me for money, data subscription, and airtime from the people I knew. I don't just rush to send it because it's possible the account has been hacked. So I leave the social media and call (phone call) the person requesting for me to know that it's truly the person begging me for such money on Facebook.
Imagine sending your dad $500 via Facebook chat and finding out that that father is a 'fake' father. Lol🤣
When it comes to security, I get double-minded about trusting or believing someone's profile because, at any time, any account is hackable.
Thanks for reading
This is my entry to Hiveghana prompt of the week