Social Media is Dumb, Bruh

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Look, look, I know what you’re going to say.

“Oh look, another person condemning social media; ohhh this is really something new and profound.” But just hear me out on this. From a guy that literally thrived on Twitter, Snapchat,

Instagram and, that place where apparently “old people” go on now, Facebook, I say this with a semi-educated perspective. Social media is dumb.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s a wonderful tool and connects many people who are miles apart. But I forgot that as much as I love humanity, I also hate it. It’s really annoying. People are annoying. Don’t read this and lie to yourself that you do not follow people that really, really, really, really annoy you.

I know you have some people muted. I know that you’re too nice to unfollow or block them even though they are arguing with some shmuck on Twitter, or they keep posting about how great their life is and how wonderful it all is, and it makes your life seem so bland.

Or they keep posting selfies, even though, yes they are probably the most beautiful people, but at the same time, you are perpetually comparing yourself to them so you post your own selfie and hope yours gets more likes and retweets than theirs!

I get it. I’ve been there. Our generation is so defensive about social media, it astonishes me even though it’s terrible. Let’s take Twitter for example, if Twitter were a person, he would be that person who seems to get invited to everything and know everything about everyone.

“OH they didn’t invite you to this thing? Oh, I’m sorry,” he would say, or “Oh haha sorry, they didn’t tell you about that; haha they told me.” Snapchat is even worse. “LOOK AT THIS THING I’M DOING THAT YOU WERE NOT INVITED TO; HAHA I’M SORRY, BUT HERE’S A 200-SECOND SUMMARY OF ALL THE THINGS YOU MISSED!”

People these day seem to be obsessed with recording something that happened to them because if it wasn’t on Instagram or Snapchat, it didn’t happen. Yes, I really want to see this your crappy video of Drake at Coachella because I couldn’t see the 100 other videos on YouTube. The “WISH YOU WERE HERE [SAD EMOJI]” really translates to “HAHA MY LIFE IS FUCKING BETTER

THAN YOURS [SUNGLASS EMOJI]”

Please, stop snapping everything about your life. One, I know why you’re doing it. Two, you are literally missing the performance and watching it through a 5-inch screen. And three, you’re still on your phone Instagramming this while you tweet about snapping about it.

I’m not saying get off social media.

Actually, that is what I’m saying. Just be present in this moment. It’ll do you good. But you’re probably already tweeting or snapchatting about how social media isn’t bad and trying to justify your opinion through favorites and retweets.

That’s for the birds, bruh.