The 21st century! The years of postmodernism, diversity and standing out right? Although it comes across that way from the outside if you look deeper you’ll find the trends, rules and expectations that lie deep in the years of being a teenager in the 21st century. As the voiceover ends this marks the beginning of the sign-up phase in the sign-up for life. In this short film we see the art of peer pressure prevalent throughout as the character is pressured to using social media from her friends constant referrals to it.

 

 

The story follows a teenager called Jenner who isn’t akin to the rest of the current teenage generation who spend copious amounts of time on their phones or virtually socializing with people they meet online.  Jenner soon becomes withdrawn from the people in which she cared so much about and spends a lot of time away from her boyfriend especially in this case in which her boyfriend tries to stop her from being overly invested in social media and bring her back to the real world in a sense . This all starts off at the beginning where her friend tries to get her into the eternally hip club of teenagers immersed in social media which slightly goes awry and she becomes too involved in the virtual world.

 

 

Life: Sign up with Facebook, a short film created by a group of teenagers to try to bring the issues we all face emotionally to light even through the mass criticism we face from politics, the media and ourselves. It sheds light on the fact that we all desire some form of social acceptance be it from a random person on the internet or a girl in real life it’ll usually take place on the internet which is a problem which plagues the millennial generation.

It seemed like the more time the girl spent on the internet that she was developing incredibly fast as a person and it acts as a social comment on how influential other humans can be on each other without actually physically being there for them. To end it, we learn that all the time on social media wasn’t essential into finding out who she was and that she's perfectly fine without the use of them as suggested by the ending. A solid 6/10, but by no means a "cult classic".