What does freedom actually mean in a world of media?

 Instagram, TikTok, snapchat. Everything is recorded, put online, and scrutiny never goes away in this day and age. No one is themselves, it is all what people want to see. We all have a version of ourselves created to impress, the side that is shown to the rest of the population. It is a prison of screens and lies. Us as humans have been trapped in between constraints that have been disguised as 'trends'. No one is free, no one can escape the crushing pressure that comes with media.

 Freedom, by definition, is the power or right to act, speak, and make choices without external hinderance, constraint, or control. The thing that has the most control and influence on the mind is social media. There is a constant pressure to be perfect for the camera, be perfect to those who see you. That is not freedom, that is a cage. To not be able to be who you are, to have to hide ones true personality, that is constraint and control. Everything is tracked, recorded, and posted. There is nothing to promote free thinking, reality, living without fear of criticism. When choices are made, they are made with trends in mind, what others would think, what they could do that would be 'aesthetically pleasing' which is really just 'what is social media telling me to do?'