Social Media Junkies

Coming from a great co-author who also happens to be a great companion...
Boys and girls of the omniverse, I give you John and his take on Social Media and its Junk(ies)!

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Ladies and gentlemen of the Social Media, creatures of the Facebook-Ville a message from yours truly. 

I would introduce myself but that'd be rather pointless, wouldn't it? Yes it would. Facebook made it rather clear of who i am, how old i am and where i live. When i first decided to become a part of the Social Media Universe ( Much like the DC Comics Universe though less exciting) i didn't quite think this through, i was young and at the time it was "hip" and "popular" to be a part of this sordid little business. So here we are. 

What is this? "What was the question again?" Let me rephrase: Why am i writing this? The answer is simple, out of concern. I am a concerned fellow Facebook-Ville citizen and i wish to bring to your attention a matter which has been troubling me for quite some time. 

Allow me to begin by saying that i've been a Face(h)booker for almost five years now if my calculations are precise, almost five years, can you believe it? I certainly can't, it feels like a relationship, a bizarre gloomy relationship that keeps on dragging and dragging. For almost two years now i decided to break up with Facebook *GASP* yes i know, i am despicable but please bare with me. Much like most things tend to evolve so has the Social Media, i am not on part with Twitter or Instagram or even Tumblr but from what i hear it's all the same really so i'm not missing out. 

What is my concern? Let me tell you and elaborate on the matter. 

When i first started out with Facebook, it was a new and exciting world, i could converse with so many different people, i could share with the world my ideas, my thoughts, even learnt to copy and paste Youtube links(!) to my Facebook wall and people would "like" my stuff. Comments and smiley faces and HOORAH! Oh and the pictures-ah don't get me started on the pictures- uploading picture after picture, sometimes i would upload more than half a dozen pictures, afterwards, the likes would commense, later came the comments, both negative and positive. I was getting attention(!) That went on for several months and it was fun-or so i thought- hunched over my laptop, awaiting for the red lil' notifications to start popping up, it was all very exciting really. Until one day, no notifications, i waited for what seemed like an eternity, not one single "like", not one tiny comment, no inboxes no nothing. I must have waited five-to-six hours but it was futile. 

My social life is falling apart!

Humans are social monsters by nature ( yes monsters)  but who would've thought that the tools ( Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MSN etc ) that are nothing but ways of minimizing the distances and are doing nothing if not helping us reach one another would become our social life? Yet it happened, it appears as if the creation of Social Media was to help people connect, easier,  and in some instances they do, but i fear that these tools have become our main method of communicating now-days. I fear that we are slowly forgetting the basics of socializing and i fear that sites like Facebook or Tumblr have become addictions. Facebook is just the tool and you are using it wrong, and yes, your social life is falling apart. just because it's easier it doesn't mean that it's better. 

We just can't get past the surface of things. 

Like mentioned above, i've been a Facebook-Ville citizen for quite some time, i've seen a lot of things on my newsfeed across the years, a lot. Both bad and good, sadly, the bad outweights the good. I'd like to pose a few questions for you my Facebook citizens: Is it so hard to converse like normal people, why don't you pick up the damn phone? ( Phones pre-date Facebook and are easy to use.)  What's up with being so pretentious? Do you really think that your life is so very important that the rest of us are in a desperate need to know precisely what's going on? Hm? Are you really that insecure and/or self-absorved with yourself and with your physical form that you feel the need to show us just how pretty you are by pretending to be a Playboy model? All these things are a Facebook routine and so much more than what i just mentioned, those, were but a few examples that stand out to me. 

I see a pattern that repeats itself, i see a problem that shows it's ugly face. Do you see it too? Am i the only one? 

Insecurities, drama, the sickening childish cries for attention " Hey! Hey! Look at me! "  You are doing it wrong, i repeat, you are allowing the Social Media to become your social life. You are using the tools in all the wrong ways. 

I have managed to escape.

It wasn't easy, but i made it. I pity you, but do you really pity yourself? Do you understand your predicament? Obviously not, otherwise you'd be focussing on the meat of life not just the surface of things. 

I salute you: 

Attention seekers, Trolls, Facebook Perverts, Facebook Wanna-Be-Models, those updating your status every five seconds, Facebook-Philosophers and in general " You People."  Most things evolve but what is Facebook if not the people that inhabit it? Since that is the case, i will be the first to admit proudly, you haven't evolved you have allowed yourselves to be victims of your insecurities by being un-able to understand the definition of the word "tool" you have all become tools and products -much like Coca Cola- 

I would further elaborate but-----------------

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Funny, ain't it? 

PS: Seriously though, you need to go see a professional, i am detecting grave psychological issues.

Like, right now. 

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