3047

The Social Media Of The Future

In the city of Metropolis of the year 3047, all its inhabitants are obsessed with punctuating the actions and behaviors of other people through their futuristic mobile devices, establishing a valuation of up to five stars per person. 

These scores are of vital importance in this chilling society, being that the privileges that an individual possesses are not due to his real merit or his money, but to the amount of stars that he has. This allows him to access things like discounts, exclusive places, and even more. 

Therefore, having many high qualifications gives a social position to each person. Candace, a young girl with a great score decides to rebuild her life at 22 years old. However, her current status of 3.6 might not allow her to access the house of her dreams because to acquire it, she'll need to have more than 4.5, so she won't have the perfect life that she wanted, which will cause her to resort to various actions to increase her reputation and score the highest. 

One day, Candace was checking her cell phone and she realizes that there was a mega party in the best place in Metropolis, when she sees this post, she decides to teleport there, because according to her, in this way she ould increase her score.

When she arrives, she uses her phone to know what is the

score of other people and realizes that it is above 4.3, so she starts dancing in front of everyone and drinking only so that people give her a higher score, for her to buy the house of her dreams.

Everyone was apparently happy and educated to get such stars. Nobody faces anyone, nobody is natural, because the important thing is to always get, before anyone, 5 stars. After a couple of minutes, everyone was at odds with their attitude, so she realizes that her score starts to go down, her affable behavior and her whole smile are transformed into irritation and despair, so she chooses to curse, the security guards arrive and immediately they teleport her to a cell without her electronic scoring device, being locked without her phone she realizes that she was pretending to be someone that she wasn’t, only to gain that dreamt score.

After not having her phone in her hands, she feels liberated from that pressure of always being the perfect girl, she calms down knowing that she no longer has to illustrate a prefabricated idea of happiness, but Candace spent 1 year in jail for public scandal, thing which helped her psychologically to develop other skills.

The end.

By Heidi Rico, Step 9.