The more I see of myself the more I change.The more I see of the world the more I long for change.

Since social media has become the new black it has also begun to show the desperate need for people to sport their popularity by the amount of followers or friends they have. Apparently this makes us cool by all standards and elevates us close to celebrity status, it’s like the school playground all over again; 500 followers or more = the cool kids, 499 or less = ag shame. Our generation loves fan-following, it makes us feel important and popular it doesn’t matter that the relationships are a centimeter deep.

What’s more we like to wax lyrical on status updates about where we are, what we are doing and who we are doing it with. Or better yet we make the updates cryptic so that we have people wondering and marveling at our profound thoughts or scatter our walls full of photo’s of what we’ve been doing. I’m not saying any of this is bad I’m just noting that we basically highlight parts of our lives so that they look exciting; not many people tweet about the mundane things because that does very little for the image we are trying to maintain and the identity we are trying to create.

I write about this because I am guilty of it, my immaturity runs deep and is obvious in most social media streams. I get slack in posting on this blog because I think to myself unless I have something profound to say or a I can write about something that will make people have a I wish I had your life moment, or unless I have a large following of readers who think I’m talented then it’s not worth it really. However, yesterday I became aware of something… I’ve had two friends mention in the last while that they have noticed very little activity on my blog but have sifted through some old posts nonetheless and will keep looking out for new posts. They both know I am a useless blogger, my writing leaves much to be desired and I talk a lot of smack most of the time about mundane, often meaningless things, and yet they read my blog and encourage me to write even about the mundane things.

The truth is that in any social media forum I’d rather have two faithful, significant followers like this than 500 or more that make me feel good about myself and help me elevate my status.

The best followers are the ones who aren’t just interested in the highlighted life moments I drape across twitter or facebook, they are the ones who are interested in the mundane too.

I know I’ll fall prey to my pride often and seek recognition from a superficial, inaccurate pictures of what’s important but I’m hoping in those moments I’ll remember these two followers and true friendships are rich and deep and sweeter than 500 or more followers who are only interested when I am interesting.