It had been a long and exhausting day for Sierra at work. Her co-workers, as usual had been mean to her, she still hated her job and her friends were ignoring her texts. Sierra slumped onto her couch and opened up her laptop. She spent about half an hour catching up on Facebook, about twenty minutes on Twitter then headed to Pinterest to get rid of her boredom. Then Sierra had an idea after skimming through the fashion category on Pinterest. She went to the mirror, touched up her make-up, flipped her hair two or three times and put on her sexiest tang-top. She whipped out her iPhone and began snapping selfies.
Sierra had created a secret Instagram account that her parents and friends didn’t know about. She changed her name and after uploading several racy photos of herself she gained quite a large amount of followers. At least here on her account she felt accepted and thought of as popular. Real life, however, was much different.
Sierra lived in an online world; real life was more of a bad fantasy to her than her Instagram and Facebook accounts. She hated her life and her popularity level was less than she would have liked it to be. Life at home was boring, her dad ignored her and her mom was always busy and talking or hanging out with her friends from church.
Can you relate to Sierra? Do you feel more accepted online when you only post about the fun things that happen in your life? Have you created an online image of yourself that isn’t really true?
A Lovely Calling 