Andreea Raicu recently made a post on her Instagram account, in which she confesses to her followers why she has been more absent in the online environment lately, according to the Libertatea website.
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The former TV presenter declares that she did not get bored of social media, as some might interpret, but rather that she began to value more other aspects of real life.
“I've been told by various people that I seem to be bored with social media and I think maybe some of you feel the same way. (…) It is not about boredom, but about a need. I started the year in India, where I was reminded how wonderful it is to be surrounded only by people who live consciously, who are fully present, who listen to you, who see and feel you, with whom you can have real connections. (…) Our mental health is greatly influenced by the quality of the relationships we have and how present we can be. I want to feel peace, joy and life with people I can really connect with. It's one of the gifts India gave me and I don't intend to give it up.” – she justified her absence from social networks.
At the age of 46, Andreea Raicu talks to her fans about the need to spend quality time, to do things the way she feels, to enjoy real, concrete, authentic connections.
“This is my need, both from face-to-face relationships with close friends, but also those with you who follow my page. I need these connections to be genuine, natural, and at the pace they feel like happening. It's not about quantity, about content for content's sake, about millions of fast-forward videos, about expensive bags, clothes and vacations, but about real life as it unfolds and at the pace it unfolds.
I don't want to post because I have to post, because the network demands it, because the engagement would be higher and because the videos would be more viewed, because otherwise you are no longer relevant. I don't want to fit into audience strategies, trendy, trending or viral topics, but I want to do things as I feel them, in the rhythm dictated by the harmony near me, as they vibrate with me. I have periods when I rarely feel the need to post, and that for various reasons: either I'm experiencing something beautiful and I don't want to spoil the moment, or I'm not feeling well or have no energy, or I simply want to be with myself or with the people dear to me” – she writes on her Instagram page.
Other subjects that Andreea Raicu “attacks” in this post – both from the position of a content creator, but also from that of a social media consumer – are the fierce competition in this field and the irrelevance of much information that runs daily in the online environment.
“I admit that when I go on Instagram, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information – 80% of which is not useful to me – and the noise made by the reels that flow incessantly and which I immediately close. (…) I feel this competition with who posts more and more extraordinary, totally and totally special and exclusive.”
And he continued with the hypocrisy of some of those who post anything just to get attention: “… the picture perfect families who scream their happiness in their pictures, and in their homes the tears flow because of extramarital affairs … the advice on how to live your life, coming from 20-year-old girls who obviously have no experience that to recommend them… the pictures full of filters, which make most girls and women look the same. Plus the millions of stories about everything. There are people I admire and follow dearly, but the noise has become so big that I often feel like you get lost when you say something relevant. I feel like protecting my peace, which is very precious to me”.
“In a world where we feel like social media helps us stay connected, the truth is that it only disconnects us from ourselves, from the people who really matter, people we're not present with because we're always with eyes on phone” – is Andrea Raicu's conclusion.
