Social Media: Dumb, Creepy, and Making Us Think Illogically?

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In today's society, it seems as if not having a social media account or not wanting one is the small rarity and don't get this mixed up--social media can be helpful. However, let's step back from the usual technology habits we have and look at how reality would look if it was in face-to-face reality. It's kind of creepy, dumb, and illogical at times.

Social Media: Dumb, Creepy, and Making Us Think Illogically?

1. Happy Birthday

How many can really say that the day of your birthday everyone knows it and tells you happy birthday? Well, now, it's quite simple. All you need to do is sign up on Facebook, enter your birthday in, and even people who would never even think to ask when your birthday is, will now post on your status from a machine notification suggesting to tell you happy birthday. Isn't that normal?

2. The Mushy Gushy Relationships

Aren't we all happy for that one friend who literally did flips when their boyfriend asked them out on a date? We all wanted to know the juicy details--a kiss, a holding of the hands, the bringing of the flowers. It seems all so sweet....until you got notifications every other week that your friend posted of her and her boyfriend with a huge paragraph about why their partner is so amazing. Wow, I'm happy for you, but that's the same thing as coming up to me in person and tapping me on the shoulder to tell me why you should be in that relationship...Creepy and no, I don't want to know all the time!

3. Personal Information

Yes, I just wrote the two words "personal information", but I guess we don't see it too much on Facebook. With a click of a button, I now know, your birthday, where you live, where you work, what you've done in your past, all your family members and relationships, and guess what? I know that you apparently smoke, drink and drive, and all those dumb things you did as a teenager. And better yet? I just stalked you to know all that, but hey, it's normal--it's Facebook. It's just not normal when some stranger comes up to us on the street and asks us personal information because that's just crossing the line.

4. "Friends"

You know, sometimes I just wonder how a person so introverted like me can have two hundred friends on Facebook when I myself can't even reach up to five good, close friends on my list. Is that just me?

5. What courtesy?

Now, not all people have little courtesy when it comes to Facebook, but for whatever reason, it's perfectly okay to take a photo of me without my permission and post it to the world of Facebook, but when it comes to wanting to send a photo of me to just one person that I at least know, it somehow needs to have my permission. So it's completely normal to snap and post photos on Facebook for every friend and their friends to see without asking, but one photo to one person, NOW you ask?

6. Messenger

Hey, buddy. Okay, you're my friend, but you know, you're not that type of friend. Because that type of friend I would text every night and we'd be hanging out every weekend like nobody's business. But all of that just changed today because there is a new invention on Facebook called Messenger. Aka..the app that ruins your life because now the people you would never give your phone number to are texting you without even having to ask a friend of yours what your phone number is. Thank goodness, there are settings.

7. Friendship Break Ups

What really cracks me up is this situation: When a friend of mine doesn't know if they should end a friendship on Facebook by taking them off their friend list. So..let me get this straight: you never hang out with this person, you never talk to this person, and you can't even remember the last time you even saw this person, but you feel awkward about taking them off your friend list? Okay...okay.

Again, Facebook and social media is not entirely bad, but if we just stepped away from this tech world for one second, I think we could realize a lot of dumb things that would never even happen in "real life".

Social Media: Dumb, Creepy, and Making Us Think Illogically?
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