On 20 Years Challenge
I think that this movement and its actions in humans have two different main sources. The first is very superficial: the need for attention. The second is 'Nostalgia', which is included in the deeper, psychological literature.
Why we are so keen on sharing our pimples, let's examine it together.
Is everything for a story and the answer to that story?
Last year, there was a trend where everyone shared their babies' photos, if I remember correctly. Everyone rushed through their mother's albums, took photos from there and shared them. I put aside essential Instagram users who have taken to the digital environment and shared TBT in between, because their situation is completely different.
Really, everything is done for an answer, a fire emoji, a heart emoji, maybe. I am aware that due to the conditions of this period, we have had to rely heavily on such communication methods. Since we do not have a normal social life outside, the whole social life now depends on these channels. Maybe it was already that we didn't realize.
Nostalgia Brings Likes
Nostalgia is defined as feeling a longing for the past and wanting to return to it. When we consider how bad the conditions are today, it is normal to feel the feeling of going back to the past. Especially during this period, we may be missing our 20s young, fast, unconscious, unresponsive state. The emergence of the 20YearsChallenge trend is very accurate because the period we are in is exactly the opposite of what we experience in our 20s. We are not free, we are not unconscious, we do not have fun, and maybe we are not as healthy as before.
A normal person experiences the feeling of Nostalgia once a week. The reminder of this feeling can be an old photograph or maybe a scent. When nostalgia was felt, one felt safer and warmer. Possible risks were cited as disconnection from real life and a feeling of depression. But recent research says interesting things. Social media and digital life addiction has made us such that we can stabilize digital abstraction by seeing a piece of our old - and not so digital - lives.
For the sake of both a story response and a nostalgic feeling, all our feeds have overflowed, but let's be stone. It doesn't matter if it feels good this way during this bad period.
Healthy days.
