Social media can be a tricky business.
Facebook for example: Make statuses all the time (like myself) and people take the pee out of you for it, make statuses never or not often, you are considered not social enough....much like Goldilocks in her hunt for a comfy bed, it has to be juuussssttt right.
Then there's Twitter, much like Facebook, except you are limited to only 140 characters...even that doesn't stop some people.
I will admit I am on social networks like these a lot! I create a status or a tweet far too often, but the thing is, it doesn't get liked or favourited as much as other people I know, so what is the benefit of it? I'll be honest, it's either a vent, or a chance to share what I'm thinking...that's Facebook's fault, it keeps asking me what I'm thinking or how I feel...
I do know people worse than myself...they will tweet every 20 seconds it seems. Their nonsensical ramblings fill my news-feed on both social networks, and it will go one of two ways:
1) They will be completely ignored. No-one will respond to the tweets, favourite them or even like the status. They will continue to ramble as if whatever they write down is comedy gold or inspirational to the person reading it.
or....
2) 26 people will favourite the tweet, 234 people will retweet it and 10 people will reply, while on Facebook people will flock their "likes" in like it's going out of fashion. I swear I have seen someone write a status on Facebook saying "Got a cup of tea and chilling like my dad #gettingold #gettheslippers" (yeah they have hash tags on Facebook now...good grief) and it will get over 50 likes, and people commenting left, right and centre.
And don't even get me started on "selfies". Unless you are showing something off, or letting me look at the latest tech you just got, you do not need to take a picture of yourself. Just because you've woken up and look like a supermodel does not mean the rest of the world needs to be informed of it. Yes, you look fantastic, but I woke up looking like Medusa, do you want to see a picture of that too?
One thing I do like on Facebook is that I can like a group with some funny pictures. I tend to share them whenever they come up (only the really funny ones) I don't mind them coming up on my wall or news-feed because they make me laugh.
I sound like an incredibly old person ranting like this, but I'm just saying what everyone is thinking.
I realise that by posting this on Facebook and Twitter, I am going back on everything I have just said, but if I didn't post this on there, how else would you read this? Google it?
Live Long and Prosper,
H.x
