SOCIAL MEDIA AND OUR INSECURITY
“How many likes until you love yourself?” Alvesha Chauhan I turned 65 on July 24. For a month before that, a group of my well-wishers were passionately coaxing me to start my own YouTube channel. They were strongly convinced, that I could reach out to a larger audience, and make a greater imapct… But, I wasn’t convinced, at all… So, their hope, that I would launch my own YouTube channel on my latest birthday was met with my lack of interest in it, and I ended up disappointing my genuine well-wishers… It was ironical, that when I was seriously contemplating on quitting a large-scale visibility – be it on any social media platform – I was being passionately coaxed by some of my well-wishers to do exactly the opposite. They kept saying: “There is so much you can do… There are so many people out there who you can reach out to… We will help you to expand… etc., etc.” But, I did not want to ‘expand’ outside… I wanted to expand inside! It’s nearly fifteen years si...