Has social media caused any problems in your life? Of course it has, whether you want to admit
it or not.
You’ve been jealous over someone’s new car, relationship,
baby, house, purse, blah blah blah. What kind of job do they have that they can afford all of these things? Why did THAT girl get to date that NICE boy? Why don't I have a baby and a husband yet, some of these girls have already been married, divorced, and married again. My plan was to already be married with a kid- ha, look how that turned out.
It has caused you insecurity in your relationship. Someone has been ‘liking’ all of your significant
other’s pictures and statuses. Who are
they? Now you go and ‘stalk’ them to figure out who they are. It’s not helpful to your relationship or
sanity. You wouldn’t get paranoid about
who is someone’s ‘best friend’ on SnapChat and what they are sending to each
other, because let’s be serious people- SnapChat was created to send
nudes. I mean, why else would you need a
picture to ‘disappear’ after 10 seconds or less.
Social media shows others what we want them to see. We show others our perfect lives. We show pictures of fun trips, girl’s nights
out, new clothes and jewelry, and of course tons of pictures of you and your
lover. It doesn’t show the ugly words
that just flew out of your mouth. It
doesn’t show the tears you cried over a fight with the person you just uploaded
to Instagram as your #mcm. And it doesn’t
show the messy rooms people have stashed their ‘things’ in…no one’s house can
really be as perfect as all the blogs I read, right?
I hate the way social media makes me feel. It is good to see people’s new babies and be
able to ‘keep in touch’ with old friends (and by keep in touch, I mean that knowing
what all sorts of people are doing that you haven’t talked to in years, but if
you actually saw them on the street there is a good chance you wouldn’t even
say, “Hi”), but if I didn’t have various social medias I wouldn’t have these feelings. I wouldn’t be jealous over other people’s
lives. I wouldn’t feel crazy, or at
least as crazy J. I wouldn’t wonder how on earth people have
the money and time to make their houses look so perfect.
Yet, I still diligently scroll through Facebook and
Instagram, watch Snapchats, and read tweets and blogs. My phone is constantly in my hand, usually
with one of the aforementioned social media apps open. It is a sick cycle and I
should probably learn to limit my time spent on these platforms. Any suggestions friends? What good do you see come out of social
media? Does social media ever make you
feel inadequate, crazy, jealous, sad, etc? Please tell me I’m not the only one!
