Humberto RamosPM Consultant| NSNMéxico D.F., Distrito Federal, Mexico
Recently went viral news about Essena O’Neil deciding to delete her photos from her Instagram account, because She says, She understood that She was caught in a trap of banality and narcissism. She had tried and managed to be the teen model that many girls tried to imitate in social networks. O’Neil states that very little of what She boasted in the net, was real. Photoshop and bending the truth formed her network profile. Paradoxically, this news is her greatest propaganda success in the cult of her personality in the net.
“Personality Cult” emerges as something new with social networks?, Not everyone of us try to do well in photos?, When our own personality cult turns pathological ?.
Many of us strive to be at networking events and networking platforms, for many reasons: we find it funny; enriching meeting people who think the same or different; To see how they see the world from other perspective; many of us networks to further our career, facilitate contacts we can serve both for jobs and for our business contracts.
Cult of personality plus Commercial interest, then many of us involves in networking with the ultimate aim of selling our own Persona. What differentiates us from this O’Neil?, she sells her youthful, beautiful and naive image, we sell our "supposed" wisdom in projects. Are we Project management rock starts? Have we gained the right to sell ourselves as Gurus?
Where lies the line that indicates that we are in a world of fantasy?. It may be that w are not really gurus, but we do not deny it, rather we encouraged that belief, because that is good for businesses.
The issue is complicated. Wanted to be liked it is not a sin; we all have the right to bend a little the reality so to look good in photos. Build a fake profile on the network and sell us as gurus? ... That will be good for our business ... but will that be good for the cause that "we are allegedly supporting"?
We may not be such a fine master piece as we managed to show in our profiles, however we all have the right to try (to look good in photos), anyhow, we are in an open market of talent, aren''t we?... are we selling fake? Saving Changes...
