Social Media.

Hi, it’s me again and today I feel like talking about social media and my opinions on it. First of all, I think social media is great at least for me it is with the way I use it. I feel like a lot of people go out of their way to look for the negative stuff, and I don’t blame them because human beings natural instinct is to focus on the negative stuff because the negative stuff can kill you as opposed to the positive stuff, so it’s our survival instinct in action, I guess. Let’s say you’re a normal person, no need for clout or anything you’re just a regular human being, why would someone telling you your pimple looks nasty on that one picture affect you, I mean it’s kinda true that pimple makes you look bad, the fact that you would take that to heart and let it affect you is absurd when you really think about it because subconsciously you think you’re perfect but when asked and you really think about it, you’d probably end up saying something like “nobody’s perfect,” but then end up thinking you’re a perfect subconsciously, to be fair it’s “subconsciously.”

Something that I never do is just sit there and scroll through my timeline seeing what other people are up to, it’s not because I have a lot of things to do but it’s like why would I do that, what’s the purpose. You’re having a good day and you scroll down your timeline just to see your ex with a new partner and now jealousy creeps in and you start having negative thoughts, that’s not healthy. I’m not saying that I never scroll through my timeline, I do from time to time but the only difference is…, let me explain this first, I have like 5 Instagram accounts and 3 active ones, so these accounts serve different purposes for me, one family, one art and the other things that I find interesting and I only scroll the timeline of the one that I find things interesting. I never scroll through the timeline of my family or art account and it’s all strategic, and the strategy works for me so I can’t complain.

So this is my opinion, not researched or anything, it’s just an intuitive thought I have and it might make sense to some of you, so when you post something and within a few seconds you get like 1000 likes and you feel good about yourself, see I don’t think that’s healthy, that’s instant gratification, it’s not healthy at all, the messed up thing is you never get used to it, because the next day you post and you get 500 fewer likes withing the same few seconds, now you start thinking you did something wrong when you didn’t. I feel like the “ALGORITHM” is responsible for more depression than what people think. You don’t suck, the app is free and people who pay for ads get more likes. The other thing is it still crazy how success is based on the amount of money you make, maybe I’m just saying that right now because I’m broke, but that can’t be right, right? But I guess just like everything else success is also a social construct because we all as a society agree to this and you can think you’re the greatest person out there who doesn’t think this way but rich people are treated better than ok people, and this is part of the construct, and more like on social media means more people like you which gives an illusion that you’ll be treated better which makes your life easier. Ok I have to stop typing now because I’m gonna start saying a lot of deep stuff that I think about and I know you might wanna hear them and I will share them with you in the future when I find a way to articulate them properly, I wanna do my thought justice, please give me that.