The world we live in today which is social media dominated has created a new false sense of belonging—where people care so much about the number of friends or followers they have on instagram or twitter than how much money they have in their bank accounts or how knowledgeable they are at any point in time.

People pride themselves with facebook likes and instagram love to the extent that people write things and they turn to like it themselves—if this is not the definition of pathetic, then I might need to buy a new dictionary.

Some few years ago, I knew where all my friends lived and I could just walk to their houses. Today, I have friends in places like China, Iceland and Kuwait—all because of social media.

Increasingly, people are buying into this false assumption that, the more people you have following you on social media, the better person you are—or the more important you are.

People do not strive to become better persons anymore; they buy followers or beg for followers to convince others and themselves that they are somehow important.

Instagram recently decided to clean its platform, deleting all spam or fake accounts and to the shock of the world, a certain person who had 3.6 million followers was left with 8 followers ( I mean single eight).

It’s pathetic how someone could have paid for all these followers—just to deceive himself /herself and others that; he/she is important.

Even rapper-Mase who had 1.6 million followers was left with 272,000 followers after the cleaning—meaning he paid for the fake accounts to follow him. Out of disgrace, he deleted his account.

Human beings have gotten to a stage where we’ve forgotten about quality—focusing more on quantity.

And it goes beyond social media. The hype is about how many you have not the value of what you have…

We are gradually losing it and we can’t seem to even notice it.

The only place some people really feel any sense of belonging is on social media—and many of us do not have real relationship with people except those behind their computers somewhere in a little hole, connected to us via internet.