Has social media changed/affected the way that you view people/life?

[Anonymous]

Personally, reading all the ugly stuff people think and say about others has sorta turned me into a misanthrope and made me avoid social interactions and withdraw into myself

[Finchie40]

I agree, I feel social media played a big part of ruining peoples mindsets and damaging relationships and society by opening doors to a lot of stupid shit. I lived in a time before social media wasn’t really even a thing , when people weren’t face planted into their phones , back then people were more trusting to each other and more outgoing with each other , relationships lasted longer, because people actually valued each other instead of face planting their faces into a cell phone filling their heads with useless garbage and secretly flirting with others behind their partners backs , We didn’t give 2 shits about what someone else was eating or where someone else was going on vacation , we weren’t bombarded by nonsense that every girl or guy is a cheater , or if your partner is doing this , it means they are doing that, People actually had More dignity and respect for each other. When you met someone amazing you both valued and trusted each other more , compared to how it is today , we didn’t have easy access into each others’ lives , people from your past were people from your past , nowadays those people from your past have easy access to try to enter into your life. People I went to high school with that I thought I would never see or hear from again were bombarding my inbox the second I joined Facebook , Girls’ that I considered just friends were inboxing me and spilling out to me that they always had a crush on me , not caring that I was already in a relationship with someone already , flirting with me. Of course I smiled and felt flattered that these girls’ are finally confessing this to me but in a sense I was put on the spot , and kind of just laughed and shook my head that this is all of a sudden happening. Not realizing my cell phone is a device to can easily jeopardize my relationship with my partner. So a lot of shit has occurred since the rise of social media , most of us were easily brainwashed by this technology because it was new and exciting to a lot of us. Not realizing the damage it was causing amongst society and relationships. Yes social media has it’s good as well but sadly it’s mostly bad because people are glued to their fucking phones and base their whole lives off of what they see and read about. Social media was designed as a money making tool , brainwashing people to make money. If people actually put their phones down and looked at the world around them , they will realize social media doesn’t really mean shit. People were more content and happy back then , we didn’t give 2 shits about what other people were doing around the world , our brains weren’t constantly filled with nonsense , we had the news and newspapers for that shit.

[Unit1]

Yes. These social media addicts are junkies. Especially those girls, that are addicted to likes, follows, attention, validation, oversharing and stalking. People became uglier to me since then.

[Asker]

Oh I absolutely can't stand this kind of people.. I don't know how society condones this type of behavior as acceptable

[Unit1]

Wow. That makes 2 of us. It is'nt all that hopeless after all knowing there are girls out there not being on that bandwagon.

[jahaims]

Yeah, people are way more broken than I thought pre social media

[handsomelad70]

It's probably made me more cynical, but I was trending there even before social media.

[sheikalana]

Yes, and not in a good way.

[exitseven]

I have a much lower opinion of people.

[In_Trance]

Absolutely it has

[Asker]

In what way?

[OddBeMe]

Why do let them have that power over you?

[strateguy632]

it hasn't