Let’s get one thing clear.
I fucking loathe social media. Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook… All that shit where you get a keen insight into what someone you don’t care about is doing at any given moment. I can see the appeal as an information tool. Something happens and everyone’s posting about it in seconds. And I can see it as a device for sharing things that’re worthwhile - Videos, etc. But beyond that, they’re pointless. “Ooh! Let’s all post pictures of artists we love and pictures of people we claim to despise but can’t stop obsessing about! Let’s be attention whores and post pictures of ourselves looking sullen in the latest fashion!” …Yeah, let’s not.
What bugs me most is before these sites with misspelled/stupid names, we had a perfectly good system of sharing things. Email is a dead format for anything beyond job applications and mailing lists for sites you visited once because you really liked that one article and never want back to again, and it seems like instant messager services are following suit, left as a cesspool for spammers who really want you to watch their free naked cams, but you have to supply them your credit card details first, just in case. Everyone’s taken to just sitting on tumblr, twitter or facebook and it genuinely vexes me to the point where I consider deleting every account I have and rage quitting the internet. But I can’t do that. No, sir. Seems like most organisations have been bitten by the social media bug too and now do most of their business online and update statuses regularly, and if you don’t have an account to see these posts, then tough shit.
I don’t know if this has ever been said before, and if it hasn’t, I’m coining it now… Never before have we been able to communication so freely and closely, and yet, we’re still so far apart. I find it difficult to care about what so-‘n’-so did last night or how hungover they are this morning and I care even less about what they’re planning on doing tonight. Nothing is personal anymore and nobody really talks. Everything is just empty words on a computer screen.
And do we even know all of our friends on Facebook? I had 180-something the other day and I’ve deleted more than half of them. People I’ve never met who add you because you’re a friend of a friend and you have a cool profile picture (or whatever). You’re not my friend. I don’t know you. Why do you insist on wanting to be on my friends list when we never even talk anyway? What’s that all about? Of the 90 friends I have just now, I regularly talk to maybe 5 or 6, and care about the updates of 20 at the very most. Everything else is just there to annoy me. I know for a fact that I don’t have 90 friends. I couldn’t name 90 people off of the top of my head.
I’m rambling now, so I’m going to cut this off early. I just had to get that cleared up, I guess.
