It's your senior year of high school, and you've been the shy kid your whole life, or at least you've come across that way; that is how it was for Vee (Emma Roberts). Through the course of this movie you follow Vee, her two best friends, and Ian while they play a virtualized game of truth or dare, without the truth part. They do random, and extremely crazy dares (which they get paid for) that the watchers determine they do; the more watchers that they get, the more likely they are to win the game. I won't give any more of the plot away, because I don't really want to ruin the movie.
The reason that I decided to write on this movie, was because it made me realize how important it is for our generation to have the most amount of followers. We feel like we have more value if we have more followers, to the point where there are apps for social media to buy followers.
Since when was our self worth determined by how many followers we have? Since when has our personality been determined by the pictures we post on Instagram. Why does it matter whether or not we think a picture that we post, or a tweet that we tweet is funny. If we think it is funny or post-worthy, why do we need others validation to realize that it is something good?
Our social media presence seems to be more important than our presence in real life. We can't continue to buy our followers, because then what is next, buying our friends? Our online presence is more important to us than our real presence is, and it shouldn't be that way. We need to take a break from social media and realize who is really there for us, sticking up for us, and making our lives better, not just making our social media presence better.
