Things That Annoy Me About Social Media

The internet is its own universe. Things can be modified from reality. Portraits can be painted that aren't quite accurate or complete. We know this. 

There's a lot to love about social media: connecting, sharing, reminiscing and staying in contact, learning about new things and far away places. Since I was a child I have been built to create content. That's what I was born to do, so I love social media as an outlet for all those thoughts and concepts. I love it. 

But here's what I find annoying AF:

• Constant streams of selfies. And not even GOOD selfies. When you're looking at your own face in the screen, you look stupid. Your eyes are down. Look at the camera. Get out of your car.
• And on that same note- FILTERS. People who know you know you DO NOT LOOK LIKE THAT. Nobody's face is that smooth and nobody's eyelashes are that thick. Be happy looking like how you really look. 
• TikTok and FB/Instagram Reels. I've seen some good ones, but mostly they are STUPID. People lip-synching to some song that is barely relevant to their message. Badly edited, truncated, self indulgent. Maybe I'm too old to "get" these, but they make me feel like the human race is circling the drain. Do better. 
• YOUR when it should be YOU'RE. This ruins so many things. Funny memes ruined by ignorant grammar. Again, are we living in Idiocracy? Sometimes it feels that way.
• POLITICS. Nope.
• ANTI VAXXERS. Okay, we got it after the first 100 things you posted. Give it a rest.
• Unboxing videos. Does every company with social media ads need to show someone receiving their product, opening the box excruciatingly slowly, and annoyingly unwrapping everything? Stupid. Is this somehow "satisfying" like ASMR in that it's so annoying it is also somehow soothing?
• People getting hacked. Hacked people sending me friend requests from friends I am already friends with. For some reason it's always older ladies who fall prey to getting hacked, so I forever have in my Friend Requests some older lady friend of mine in her 70s who got hacked, more than once. 
• Fake people friend requests. I guess my algorithm somehow sends to me a bunch of windowed veterans all the time. Their cover photos and their profile photo is always a a picture of the alleged dude. When your profile photo and your cover photo both are photos of you, that is weird and a red flag. These lovelorn friendship seekers always live someplace super fake sounding like Florida City, Florida, or Alabama City, Alabama (...but really they live in Nigeria).
• Poorly moderated groups that share the same posts over and over. 
• "Asking for a friend". That phrase has jumped the shark, folks!
  
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