- a critic about the Swipe generation - by The Girl on the picture




Nowadays the definition of “like” has changed

Instead of a feeling with someone you dated

People check first if you have pictures sophisticated

 

The generation of Swipes

Has no understanding of Likes

Put your best clothes and prepare to go to the park

Your Tinder photoshoot is about to start



Imagine if smartphones no longer exist

And all social medias have been forbidden

Would you remember how to invite a girl out

Or would you be lonely at home like a baby kitten?

 

Do you know how to flirt without writing behind a screen?

Why don’t you go out and tell a girl: Hei, you are the woman of my dream!

 

We are living in superficial times

Women are full of make-up

Covering their beautiful eyes

Men going blind with nothing on their mind

Taking pictures on their bathroom mirror

Thinking they are our desired miracle

Hei, who do you want to impress?

An idiot by using your favorite dress?

A girl by showing how much you can put on the leg press?

Or yourself finding your own path?

 

I think people just forget

How beautiful is life without a ready google text

Identities are being lost

Online albums are replacing real thoughts

Save yourself out of this technologic prison

Or your journey here will have no real reason


Pauline Alves