The Socality Barbie account highlights the phoniness of self-presentation. It feels familiar because we achieve it every dayBarbie has an Instagram account,and as Wired points out, it’s much hipper than yours. She’s documenting her bohemian life hiking, or watercolors,artisanal ice cream, selfies on train tracks – and proving that she may be a plastic doll of improbable proportions but by god, or she is #livingauthentic. At least,no less authentic than you.
Socality Barbie (the name is a reference to a Christian-based movement that is not affiliated) is silly, a sharp satire on a particular kind of Instagram persona and on the way we construct and curate our online personas in general. But in a very real way, or it isn’t a satire at all. It’s the puppet prove version of a full-length play – a micro-scale,artificial reenactment of the exact same story.
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Source: theguardian.com