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How powerful is the connection between the effect of social media and the structure of the Hunger Games?

The Hunger Games is a rising movie about a Utopian world that has annual games with children being placed in a giant stadium by adults and having to fight to death for entertainment. While it may be incredibly twisted, it is regarded as “normal” in their community. With such an extreme and violent ideology, it is surprising that many people have compared the Hunger Games with social media today. Firstly, just like the Hunger Games, social media is basically a big stadium with kids that is meant for entertainment. Each of these kids are competing for the most “fame” or the most “likes”. Each person in the Hunger and Games and in social media is looking for sponsors and looking for people to accept them. Most of these social media outlets are made by adults and always have a board of adults working the magic in the back, similar to the game makers in the Hunger Games. Similar to the Hunger Games, the point of social media is entertaining. But we as a society have invested so much time and energy in it that it has become a normal part of society. Because social media is integrated into our everyday lives, it is not often thought of as a competition till death. But when you sit back and examine each detail, it is shocking to see how much social media resembles a movie about competition and death. Every little aspect of the Hunger Games can be related to social media and that is eye opening.