Influencers

Here, I take a closer look at three potential characteristics of human expression: spontaneity, transparency, and candor. Also, how exactly is our practically rabid media culture an influencer on how we communicate? 

It's only too obvious that we're now in a cultural age that applauds surprise. Being spontaneous, in the moment, expressing without filter or forethought sells as a trait. Folks like to be shocked or startled by cleverness and the unexpected, both in words and deeds.

For many, personal transparency is more a daily state of being, a built-in style of interacting with everyone. While some folks are not transparent at all, or they feel it's not a good choice, as our media culture emboldens the notion of revealing all in public. Yet, media platforms and their secret corporate schemes defy transparency. Influential media wants everyone else to "tell all", but preserves their strategy to employ narratives and programmed misdirection. 

Candor in the public sector can often be scarce, it's always a risky business. Media culture often ranks audience over basic honesty, ratings over truth. The social media giants are deciding what you see and hear day and night. Stories that are pushed often have sneaky corporate agendas attached, wholly unseen in the copy or image.

Self-interested media influences you to be spontaneous in your spending, transparent with your consumption, and candid to the point of callously unwise overexposure, as many may experience a new form of impersonal electronic loneliness that is all subjective, one-sided, and pervasive.