Anti-Social Media

You and I both know that if you’re eating a really good snack, you can’t keep that thought unexpressed. Your very first thought isn’t, “this is a really good snack,” it’s “all of my friends should know I’m eating this snack.” There’s no way you should be the only one to know how good that Hot Pocket is, all of your Twitter followers would love to know too. It makes your heart feel good and your Hot Pocket experience even better when you find out that you got three retweets.

Life without social media is like life without air. If you’ve ever gotten grounded or lost your phone or gone a day with a dead phone, once you get it back, your life revolves around scrolling through hours of news feed and checking endless notifications. Or if you’re like me, it’s looking at what other people are doing because you got no notifications and reading about other peoples lives is what yours has come to. There are some people that are all like, “I don’t need social media to live.” Well this is a direct message to you if you have said that once in your life: 1.) You are missing out. 2.) you probably don’t have many friends. And 3.) There are some amazing cat videos on Facebook you’ll never get to enjoy.

There are so many different types of social media. There’s an app for everyone’s personality. If you like visually seeing what people are doing, get an Instagram, that app is like a photo party. If you aren’t into looking at selfie city, people with their boyfriends, or the latest #WomanCrushWednesday, try Facebook. Sometimes (if you’re lucky enough) you can catch a Facebook fight that is 40 or 50 comments long. Just sit down with some popcorn and you’re golden Ponyboy. Speaking of Facebook, you know how many games there are!? You can own your own farm. A digital farm, how neat is that? You can’t have that much fun reading books or doing something educational. Psh.

Okay, if you aren’t into any of that super fun stuff (you must be a pessimist or something if the sound of a digital farm doesn’t make you excited) you can get all of the social medias combined with the almighty Twitter. You can see cat videos AND enjoy some subtweets here and there. Sports scores come easy and song lyrics are plentiful. Social media has good things and bad things but it will benefit everything in your life.