The Real World Social Media Style
I was obsessed with MTV Real World when it first came out in 1992. At the time I felt it was original, cutting-edge and thought provoking. In my teenage, worldly optimistic view, I was enthralled with the idea that it could change opinions and in some way promote tolerance. Exposing people, that would otherwise never make each other acquaintance, and the potential of those encounters to cross racial, ethnic, political, religious and sexual orientation boundaries. On top of that, becoming friends with someone, who under normal circumstances, you would have turned your nose up at and the realization that these people have more in common with you then you would have thought. Of course, there was the drama, the crushes, and the cliques that may have formed, but in those first few seasons of MTV Real World, in some way, it did feel real.
