{"id":20265,"date":"2016-08-13T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20265"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:28:20","slug":"side-effects-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/side-effects-of-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Side effects of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gone away are our face to face connections<br \/>\nReplaced by the fantasies and imaginings of fake friends and lurkers<br \/>\nThe children no longer play<br \/>\nbut sit inside watching fight videos,<br \/>\ntaking pictures to see how many likes they will get<br \/>\nSelf esteem fractured by mean and inappropriate comments<br \/>\nNo need to bully you in person,<br \/>\nBullying can now be done using a computer or a smart phone<br \/>\nPeople hiding behind fake pages, trolls<br \/>\nspitting out their racial hatred,<br \/>\na cobra&#8217;s poison tainting all who read the comments.<br \/>\nObesity, time wasted, lack of creativity<br \/>\nfalsehoods and phonies<br \/>\nhomework left undone<br \/>\nI gotta get that new game system<br \/>\nGotta put on fronts for my fan-base<br \/>\nInauthentic, fantastical lies,<br \/>\nfill up my newsfeed<br \/>\nVideos of people killed by police, no filter,<br \/>\nsnap-shot conversations<br \/>\npick up the phone to record, not to call for help<br \/>\nRecord the video of my own death via facebook live<br \/>\nViolent videos all through my timeline<br \/>\nDestroying my psyche,<br \/>\nfilling me with so much sadness&#8230;<br \/>\nbut wait,<br \/>\na cute cat video,<br \/>\noh look, an owl kissing a child,<br \/>\nwow,<br \/>\na video of unusual animal friendships,<br \/>\nhope is restored&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nlol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone away are our face to face connections Replaced by the fantasies and imaginings of fake friends and lurkers The children no longer play but sit inside watching fight videos, taking pictures to see how many likes they will get Self esteem fractured by mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20507,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}