Status Update

Please view the following comic strip entitled Social Media IRL.

After I stopped laughing, the truthfulness of the comic came to mind. Our culture really does feel that they need to post comments and updates on everything that they are doing. Other people then, in their spare moments of the day, check those social media sites to see what their friends are doing. Upon seeing the cool, funny, sad, dumb things that their friends are doing, they feel that they also need to post those things.

I'll admit I do like to see the cool things that my friends are doing, especially those who go on a particularly cool date, or see something crazy, or funny. I am glad that they post it so that I can experience it with them. I post a few things myself that others probably think, "Oh great, another post about running. Who cares?"

Is that not the point of social media? So you can express your thoughts, feelings, desires and connect with those who also have the same ideas? Of course not everyone is going to cherish that delicious cheeseburger that you ate, but the friends who ate their with you will remember the great time you had, or that you hadn't had a Five Guys burger in AGES!

I encourage you to think about the posts that you are putting on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and to be a little less judgemental of others who post, because your posts might be as odd to others as thiers are to you. If you are now thinking to yourself, "But I don't 'post' anything." Then my question to you is, why do you even have the social media then? If you are thinking "So I can keep up with friends," then you have missed the point of this blog.