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Personal Narrative-Taking Is Losing

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Taking is Losing I am an old style man. I had never used the smartphone and social media, but one day my old friend came to set the Facebook account for me to connect with our old friends. First I surprise that there are many our friends in there, and every day they seem very busy to send and receive, the texts, videos, and pictures. Second I had recognized that many of them have many travel trips in the world. Once I asked my close friends that; are they rich and why they have many travel trips? My friend relies on that all our friends now are “keeps up with the Joneses” if the one doesn 't post the travel picture, it means they are poor and does have a good life, so they race to do that. Now I know the social mediums had been changing the way people living; they are more try to deal with people on net than their real demand and real life. …show more content…

One time, I really surprise when I saw my friend in his picture was sitting and enjoy food and wine with the happy smile on the airplane’s first class chair, who I know is earning minimum wage and struggling with his financial problem. I think he will be happy to post that picture and enjoy the words of praise from replies on his Facebook, notwithstanding how much the payment for the first class ticket. It is true in article “How Social Media Affects Our Self-Perception” Kelsey Sunstrum wrote that We are conditioned to project only our best, albeit unrealistic, selves on our social media profiles as a modern way of virtually keeping up with the

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