Social Media Addiction

Technology makes our lives more efficient. Social media can connect people from far away but at the same time, it can make our lives less real. People prefer to like images on their phones instead of engaging in the conversation around them. It's so easy to "like" an article or an image on social media. On Instagram, you simply press the image twice to "like" an image. Marketing company uses "like" machines to like the images. How many of those "likes" are real? I chose multiple symbols in this image. Chips and coca cola represent addiction and self-indulgence. It's easy to create an illusion that you are liked on social media. Rat often represents abundance. For a social media addicted person, he/she can view online information for more than five hours a day. In this scenario, I chose Sphinx rat as the main character. Sphinx rat has a unique appearance. It is a hairless rat that has wrinkles on its body. Physiology is similar to that of a human, which is another reason I chose this type of rat. Sphinx rat is intelligent, independent and loyal. It was originally used as blood-sport in 18th and 19th Europe. Now people own it as their pets or for medical research. I made this image to address social media addiction and I hope to bring the real human connections back.