All the World’s a Stage

All the world’s a stage and all men and women merely players-

Said Shakespeare, he turned out to be a soothsayer

For he predicted the times we live in now

Where the proliferation of social media has allowed

All of us to make our lives performative

For likes, followers and subscribers, many of us now live

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Dress up and use filters, spruce up your space

Post a video of yourself wandering through a place

Read books for braggadocio on online platforms

A curated and aesthetic version of your life on social media perform-

The internet is the default stage for everyone

Where the attention of a fickle audience must be won

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I am sure Shakespeare did not envision social media when he wrote those lines

But he unwittingly nailed the zeitgeist of our times