I don’t know if it’s just an age thing, or if I’m just a grumpy old man these days. But social media has just gotten worse as time has gone on.
Back in my younger days, I joined Myspace (Yes I’m that old). It was a good laugh. You set up your own profiles and tried to create the best profile out of your friends. In all fairness, it made me learn some coding so I could make it look ‘cool’. But I do think that’s where the downfall also kind of start. People tried to get into the top 8 friends. Whatever the number was, they used it as a negotiation tactic. They would say, ‘If you don’t do this, I’ll take you out of my top friends’ sort of thing. Myspace is also where I got catfished hard. But that’s a story for another time.
Eventually, Myspace became dated and Facebook took off. I still remember all my friends moving to Facebook. They asked me to come over as well because it’s ‘better’. I was reluctant, mainly because I couldn’t be bothered. Eventually peer pressure took over and I made my Facebook profile.
At first, it was fun. I met a few good people on there. Some of them I have never met in real life. I still talk to them every now and again. On the other hand, also met people I wish I didn’t. But with the same as Myspace, Facebook started to go stale. Click baity articles, cryptic status’ from friends. Begging for attention, then when you ask, they don’t want to talk. I often found myself scrolling for ages in the mornings, just reading essentially nothing. Doom scrolling is what I think they call it.
So after thinking about it for a while, I decided to get rid of my Facebook profile. I’ve never looked back. The only social media I use now is Instagram. But honestly, I find myself doom scrolling on there, so I do often think about deactivating that as well. So many people rely on social media to communicate. Would I be cutting myself off from the little world I’m involved in now?
I doubt I’ll ever get back on the social media train. I’m too old for it now. But I do worry about the younger generation’s future. Social media is full of false information and unrealistic images.
But in short, social media…I very rarely use it.
The Fifth Try 
Social medias a funny thing, we are more connected then ever, but everything about it is so superficial and fake, there is huge decrease.in the amount of genuine personal connection between folk
I genuinely loathe it these days, I have Facebook purely for messenger and marketplace, I don’t feel I need to post stuff on there for.validation and those important to me already know what I’m up to.
Instagram is purely and simply for my miniature painting, surprisingly there’s a very wholesome community on there that always helps to challenge and push me forward.
Tiktoks both st the best and the worst thing to ever happen to the internet.
I’ve learnt so much from it, but it’s completely destroyed people’s attention spans, now if something doesn’t fit into 2.5 mins it’s not worth consuming. It’s literally adhd the app.
Overall I see it as a good microsim of the internet as a whole, a very valuable tool that somehow people have mistook for real life.
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