“So you really not going to introduce me to yo Facebook friends”
Cruise with me down memory lane and you will find a pen in my pocket for number collecting. Anytime I and the fellas took junior high/early high school trips, we had a pen to write down names and numbers of the pretty girls we might encounter. I called them on a landline and memorized most of the numbers I had to dial. I had big dreams of purchasing a little black book, but the Nokia softly murdered those dreams. That little book was going to contain a list of ladies’ name with a star by the special ones, but technology encouraged me to take a different route. That’s just one small example of how technology has changed the course of our everyday habits. Today, social media is the wave that dictates how the world operates.
I like to say that I’m not a big fan of social media, but I cannot seem to go a day or 2 without checking my Facebook, snapchat, or ig accounts. It is highly addictive and entertaining to say the least. Although I am an avid user, I do believe that people get too wrapped up in it and neglect themselves of real world pleasures. People pour some of their deepest feelings into a facebook status and get upset when they are not perceived as expected. Their whole life becomes a social spectacle for the world to see, and they miss out on a few golden moments in their actual life. On top of that, he or she robs themselves of his or her own privacy. For instance, if you post pics and stats about being in love all day and suddenly stop. Chances are you’re single again. If a girl posts pictures every day and then, poof, she’s gone. Then you can just about bet the bank the next picture she posts will be of her baby bump. Facebook has literally become the online book of your life. I aspire for my life’s story to be read through my interactions.
In closing, I’d like to encourage you to post less and live more. There are more entertaining things to do than read about someone else’s life or worry about how they may interpret yours. I find it interesting, yet annoying that social media is a serious discussion when it comes to relationships. They say the love isn’t real until it becomes facebook official. I don’t have to take you anywhere or let you meet anyone in my real life, but as long as we’re together on social media then it’s all good. How dare you introduce her to your mother before your facebook friends meet her? I typed that jokingly, but I guarantee somebody read that and said, “Hell Yeah.” After you share this post, I challenge you to post less, have a drink, and start to enjoy your motherf*cking life a little bit more. Make a few mud tracks in your real friends’ lives and let social media chase the footprints you leave in the dark.