Have you ever bought a new water bottle or new jacket, then realized you don’t know why you wanted it so bad? All you can draw to mind is all the influences of varying social apps using said item, and this is the psychology of trends. Trends are typically displayed as a negative thing in most scenarios, but I’m here to inform you this is incorrect for nearly all harmless social media trends. 

    Most social media trends, take the stanley cup as an example, have been deemed as “stupid” or “typical” by some users. They describe teenagers as trend following zombies while ignoring the very important psychology behind why we follow trends. Trends are vital to our psychology because they encompass a major branch of our very social society. They are formed by a very basic human behavior dating back millions of years. We found it crucial to our survival to observe the behavior of others, as this helped cause us to have faster reaction times. Our brains observe how others respond to situations and decide to follow accordingly, while archiving it for later. Of course you may be wondering, how does that apply to today? Well everything you do is learned from someone else, you even learn how to interpret pain from your parents!

    These are not the only reasons that trends are important, they additionally build a very important foundation of socialization for us humans. People try to say that we should discourage trends, however, this is incorrect; we need to recognize them for the important role they play in our lives.