Our Favourite TV Shows featuring Social Media
In an ever-growing world of social media, shows have adapted social platforms as a muse to create a variety of tv and movies. The objective of these shows is to cause awareness and impact of the global phenomena that is social media. Here’s Paperclip & Co’s Top 5 TV Shows/Films featuring social media.
You
The first season of the Netflix show ‘’YOU’’ has got the internet talking as it focuses on the dangers of social media. The story line follows Joe, a bookstore manager who becomes obsessed with a customer, Beck. YOU highlights how Joe becomes a part of Beck’s life as he extracts things about her through social media. The show does a good job in creating awareness about online privacy and what different social platforms mean to people who abuse it. Joe uses Instagram to see pictures of Beck, Twitter to find out what she’s up to and Facebook to dig deeper into her family and friends. The series emphasises on the boundaries people need to set up when on social media.
The DUFF
The Duff, a movie based on the bestselling book by Kody Keplinge explores Gen Z and millennial’s in the world of social media. The movie revolves around the term DUFF that stood for ‘’Designated Ugly Fat Friend’’. The protagonist of the story Bianca hears about this term through social media and begins having second thoughts about her social standing, her friends and her life in general. Bianca soon turns to her friend to make her less of a ‘’Duff’’ in the chances to impress her crush. The movie shows how followers, social media and comments can damage one’s self-image and perceptions. It then goes into detail about public humiliation and bullying on social media and the issue of comparing yourself to your peers.
Black Mirror
The hit Charlie Brooker show ‘’Black Mirror’’ has taken the world by storm touching on topics such as social media, technological advancement, human interaction and dating apps. Black Mirror highlights the dangers of a fast-changing world and what it can do to its people. Social media plays a giant if not the most important role in many episodes. Nosedive, an episode around social media envisions a world where we are completely dependent on social ranking due to ‘’rating’’ we receive from other people. Our rating is dependent on how we interact with others, what we consume, buy and see. The episode drives one such woman – Lacie to a mental breakdown, as she could not keep up with the farce she put up on social media. We are all avid members of a world obsessed with social media – It is what we do with this power is what matters.
The American Meme
Some believe that only the brave and the bold can endure strength training. Strength training has usually been marketed as a masculine exercise, but that’s not true especially for our social media specialist Shraddhaa who has been a gym bug for 4 years now. Believe us she doesn’t conform to what men and women are limited to at the gym. “Over the years, I figured out that the Indian society has prescribed a narrow image of what a ‘perfect girl’ should look like. She should be strong enough to give birth, but to lift a 60 kilo tyre, would be unladylike of her. I choose to not be confined to this stereotype, and I believe that no girl should be. Strength training puts me in a good headspace, seeing my performance improve over time motivates me, and it’s my favourite form of me-time.’’Lifting weights can help you work your joints through a full range of motion, keeping them strong and flexible and keeping you steady on your feet!
The Circle
Some believe that only the brave and the bold can endure strength training. Strength training has usually been marketed as a masculine exercise, but that’s not true especially for our social media specialist Shraddhaa who has been a gym bug for 4 years now. Believe us she doesn’t conform to what men and women are limited to at the gym. “Over the years, I figured out that the Indian society has prescribed a narrow image of what a ‘perfect girl’ should look like. She should be strong enough to give birth, but to lift a 60 kilo tyre, would be unladylike of her. I choose to not be confined to this stereotype, and I believe that no girl should be. Strength training puts me in a good headspace, seeing my performance improve over time motivates me, and it’s my favourite form of me-time.’’Lifting weights can help you work your joints through a full range of motion, keeping them strong and flexible and keeping you steady on your feet!
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