Social media is become a more and more prevalent part of our daily lives, it allows us to keep up to the minute with events around the world, communicate with one another, and gives us something to read on our phones in awkward situations. Unfortunately this power has proved too much for many teens to handle responsibly. I’m not talking about your half naked mirror selfies or the album titled “summer”, which is really just ten pictures of you hitting buckets, no, I’m talking about something much more serious. I’m talking about that girl in your class that you followed on twitter the other day. The first red flag should have been that she has 12,576 tweets since October 2012, or her bio that goes something like “Gossip Girl is my life- Dreamer #yolo #newyork #longhairdontcare”. So maybe you didn’t notice those, well then you’re in for a bumpy ride. For as long as it takes you to realize you hate the person and unfollow them your news feed is going to be mercilessly violated by One Direction lyrics, comparisons of her parents to Hitler and other charming characters, and “RT for s/o”. Before being allowed onto the internet everyone should be reminded that no one cares about their drama and it’s not ok to start a fight with the girl you say stole your boyfriend on my newsfeed. Furthermore there is nothing less interesting to anyone than the fact that you have “insomnia” because you’re awake at 12:30, and if you seriously expect people to bring you food on demand, you’re going to starve to death.
As more and more people abandon the sinking ship that is Facebook and move to greener pastures like Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram this has become less of an epidemic but is still of noteworthy concern nonetheless. Have you noticed lately that the only people still actively using Facebook are the weird people you’re only friends with for school reasons? Yeah. Don’t “share” anything onto my feed, I’m not going to read it; I don’t care how sad a story it is, how funny the cat looks or how many likes they need to magically cure their cancer. Also please think before you post pictures. We get it, it’s easy, you can upload straight from your phone anytime anywhere, but that doesn’t mean you should! Rule of thumb: if you have an entire album of your cat go stand in the internet corner of shame.
I think I honestly laughed my entire way through this. Sadly enough it's sooo true, and all of this happens alll the time. It's ridiculous! But hey thanks for laying it all out there Jacob, that was great.
ReplyDeleteI just died. #lovedit (just kidding..) I agree with you! some people get so carried away it's embarrassing. I hate seeing whinny posts all over facebook. I could have a smart phone if I wanted to, but I personally can only handle so much social media.
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