I think that this episode of Black Mirror Nosedive is more relevant than it ever has been and only will continue to prevail as time goes on. This is because in this episode, it depicts what society might relaly become someday. As I called it, it’s a Yelp but for people but in this case, people are trying hard to fake their impressions. Trying ever so hard to get that five-star rating by partaking in useless events and impressing strangers. This isn’t my first time watching this episode yet somehow each time, I’m more and more surprised at how relatable its has become as time progresses. It instills a sense of fear to be honest, that one day we all have to fake to be nice and pretend to be happy and caring for people we don’t even know when even in days like today, I tend to ignore my best friends for hours so I can do homework. In the episode I could see some parallels already forming, an example being when Lacie orders a drink from the café just to take a nice picture even though it tastes, judging from her expression disgusting. My mother for example does the same, she always tells me to take her fancy places to eat so she can take nice pictures and post them on her social media and her friends can compliment her. My friends mothers do the same and we always talk about how our parents are putting on such a fake type of lifestyle for others to see.

After watching Black Mirror Season 3 episode 1, it makes me feel very unfortunate for Lacie. She was a great, enthusiastic girl with a 4.2 grade.( from my understanding the grade is scale from 1 to 5, meaning her grade was pretty high)  Then because she wants to join a program that require a grade of 4.5, she tries every possible thing to increase her grade, so she decides to go to her friend’s wedding and make a speech and hope that she can increase her grade. At the end, her grade drops dramatically and she ended up in the jail.

I feel this is relatable to me.  When I post something online, I always hope that more people will like my post.  I feel bad if only a few people liked my post. I feel like this is an unhealthy behavior since it is just a post, an online post. Why do I have to care so much? However, even if I tell myself about that, I still care about the likes. I still care about the impression that other people are having on me. Same thing happen with other people. When I watch videos on youtube, those youtubers always want more likes for their videos. If they get enough likes, they will make more videos. On the other hand, if they get little or no likes, they will not keep doing it.  Those likes or “grades” online is just like the money that we use in the real world. We need them to work harder. Even though I think likes are important because it encourages people to work harder and produce work with great quality, too much of it will be terrible. It will take over your soul and controls you to do something you don’t agree.

Social media is a powerful tool. Some candidates use social media to convince people to vote for them. Also, it gives people a chance to know about other people’s daily life. People can also use this to share their own life. All of these are benefits of social media.  However, if people become too serious about this, it might have the opposite effect. There’s a famous quote from Albert Einstein-”I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Don’t let social media controls you. You should be the one controlling it.