In the 21st century, we are presented with multiple avenues to express ourselves such as: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Tumblr along with many others. These sites are the modern diaries. Reflecting on one’s day no longer requires scribbling into a journal that is stowed away in its secret hiding place. Entries in today’s diary differ in one major component, privacy. Instead of these anecdotes being private rants and raves about the day, they are now permanently etched on a server forever. In the new era of social media the distraction of achieving peer acceptance and the lure of “likes”, “favorites” and “views” is overshadowing the permanence of anything uploaded to the Internet, ignoring the magnitude of worth placed on social media’s hierarchy.  The very epitome of human nature lends itself to the internal desire to strive towards the idea of public approval and acceptance. This built-in drive has lead to several different types of public conformity over the centuries in a desire to achieve societal significance measured in many different fashions. In earlier centuries numbers, have falsely defined personal worth. In past societies the declining circumference of a woman’s waistline cinched into corsets defined her beauty. Across the seas in China the bound feet of women and girls were attributed to their splendor over looking the permanent physical damage being done in the process. There were African tribes where the larger the size of a member’s lip plate showed ones status among fellow members, ignoring the difficulty eating that came with these gages. Although all these practices are largely out dated, they have now been replaced by new set false standards. These standards have shifted to the number of likes on a photo, status or tweets along with the number of followers one has. The similarity between the earlier standards, and modern standards are the means in which some will go to achieve them. This need to be perceived as high as possible in the social order has lead to thoughtless decisions to accomplish the “likes”. Social media sites may vary in the way they have been set up, but all seem to have the same underlying premise of some sort of public judgment being bestowed on the poster. A morsel of information, or thoughts from the day is shared. It could be a picture, quote, memory, or the general happenings in one’s life. All must stand the subtle scrutiny of ones peers at the time it is posted. Social media has taken over the mainstream calendar now specifi