I watched a program about fake social media profiles for the purposes of forming deceitful on-line romantic relationships. I heard many people saying that creating the fake profiles was an addiction and that they couldn’t stop. When I heard them say it was an addiction, I wondered how many viewers of the program could understand.
I have a social media profile to promote my writing career. I find it difficult to keep up with it. I don’t have the time or energy to check it every day. I feel like there are more important things to do. Then, I think about these people who have fake profiles. They don’t just have one fake profile, usually they have multiple fake profiles. They probably spend most of their free time keeping up the fake profiles. At that point, the person doesn’t have the power anymore; they have given power to those fake profiles and now those profiles are the driving force in that person’s life just as much as the drink is the driving force in an alcoholic’s life.
The reason why God asks me to hold him above all others as my only God partially has to do with culture, but it is also important spiritually. If God is the center of my life, then my life will be about loving others and trying to be the best person I can be. If I chose to let something else, like social media, alcohol, drugs, etc. be the center, then I won’t be able to enjoy my life the way God meant it to be.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
