Social Media is arguable one of the best tools for Millennial’
s of today… if
you don’t know who a millennial is then I probably don’t know how to
start with you.
I don’t know how it started for you guys but for me it
started with the old ones. Hi5, Black Planet, and all those pen pal sites, I
was excited at the thought of meeting people from different parts of the world
outside my immediate environment, it was exhilarating.
I was obsessed with the internet, I would be at the cyber café
at odd hours doing nothing but chatting, catching up with celebrity gossip,
sending mails (wait I still do that don’t i?) but when Facebook came that was
the turning point.
I suddenly
reconnected with all my friends who abandoned me and went to the States and
different parts of the world to school , if we bought new outfits we would post
it, when we went out we would post it…snap…snap…snap Social media became a
vanity propellant.
I just loved getting those comments on Facebook and I loved
the attention (hey I am being honest), and the drama that followed the
relationship status. Facebook slowly turned into a dating site, people were rushing
into the site to hook up, Facebook has created loads of marriages, children,
hook ups, friendships and sadly kidnapping, fraud and also deaths which brings
me to the negative part .
Social Media can expose you to the good and bad out there
and some of the bad are really evil.
With all this it still baffles me that people would bring
their relationship drama to social media, relationships are hard enough on
their own and with your inner circle but to throw everything out to the public
who don’t know you or care about you to digest?
I mean it was bad enough when
you just had Facebook with the its complicated relationship status, and the
annoying epilogues some people used to drop on their profile when a relationship goes
sour, but at least majority of their Facebook friends might actually be family and
friends but geez on Twitter and Instagram it’s like a dam has burst and people
won’t stop with the relationship updates.
They @ each other and say the meanest most vile things
forgetting that they are broadcasting these things to the whole world and the
evidence will always be there, they fight, they curse, they accuse, I mean have
a lot of people seriously lost their minds!?
Now look Dakky will confess, I did change my relationship
status from “in a relationship” to “its complicated” to “single” on Facebook
but I was in my late teens/ early twenties what’ s your excuse?
At least I never called names, I never wrote unnecessary
epistles targeted at my so called mortal enemy /ex boyfriend, I never dragged
people’s names through the mud like most married, divorced and Exes do
nowadays, fully grown adults who should know better spitting out vile words on
social media to your ex husband/baby mama/baby daddy /husband e.t.c It is
wrong.
When they are all fired up they let their fingers do the
talking and when the insanity leaves they want to kiss and makeup ….hey you
have already invited the whole public into that situation don’t you think they
will never let you guys hear the end of it?
At the end of the day I enjoy social media , Twitter is like
therapy for me and INSTAGRAM is like…yeah it’s a Vanity propellant but you need
to understand, Relationships are between two people keep the public out of
this.
P.S I Blame Chris Brown #enoughsaid.
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