Life cannot be summed up in a thing or even a collection of things. Life is more than cute clothes, fun shoes, perfect hair, and tasty food at trendy restaurants. Sometimes I think we create "instagrammable" or "tweetable" moments to construct a faux lifestyle that fits social media stereotypes. And we keep ourselves busy projecting these "instaperfect" moments that create our "Internet Image". Pretty soon social media and conspicuous consumption becomes our lives rather than an element of our lives as we continuously perform our fabricated persona. Meanwhile, we miss out on opportunities to be really creative, explore culture, and discover things that aren't yet a trending hashtags on Twitter.

I'm not pulling out the old cliché that rants about social media being a cheap or insincere way to communicate. I'm not even suggesting that social media is ruining the art of communication because, frankly, I'm sure many people said similar things when the Pony Express & the telephone were invented.

What I think we are losing, is true creativity. Creativity that isn't packaged and marketed as a stereotypical "Internet Identity". Creativity that is spontaneous, adventurous, curious, and additive to our personalities and characters. What we are losing is the type of creativity that questions  social stereotypes rather than propelling them. 

I think its time to change this.