Social media. It gives us news, updates on how much weight our old school friends have put on since you saw them last, and how much the sports world has changed. There have been some recent gems floating around, such as the crying Jordan, caveman Spongebob, and #MCM and #WCW usually cheer people up. However, there have been some recent trends on Facebook, Twitter,and Instagram, and all the rest that are really starting to wet my socks. Here are eight of them:
1. Gym/Post Workout Selfies
Look, if you were once unhealthy, and on a mission to lose a lot of weight, then more power to you and post away. Your posts come off as inspiring. But if you're someone who was always in decent shape/seen as attractive and are just posting for the sake of self-indulgent likes, then you come across just as thirsty as some of the opposite (or same, I don’t judge) sex commentators that you are trying to attract, whether you admit that’s the goal or not.
2. Sex/Porn gifs
I mean come on, there's a time and a place.
3. Posts about missing the 90's
First of all, the majority of the people who post these probably don't even remember the 90's anyway. I was born in 1994 and don't remember them, maybe the end of 1999, but that's about it. However I loved the early to mid 2000’s. Not only that, it's getting done repeatedly to the point where it's almost sad. Nostalgia is one thing, but we're approaching the Uncle Rico level here. Live for the now, and prepare for the future. Enough is enough.
P.S. If you don't get the Uncle Rico reference, then there isn't a snowballs chance in hell you remember the 2000's, let alone the 90’s
4. Relationship Goals
I get it. If you’re single or just plain unhappy with your
relationship you may feel the need to lash out. (Even though simply talking
with your significant other is always better than subtweeting, but I
digress) Everybody has an idea in his or
her mind of what a “perfect” relationship might be.
But what I don’t understand is when did it become everyone’s goal to
find a relationship where seemingly all you do with your partner is smoke weed,
grab each other’s asses in public and watch Netflix? This is why the other
countries are laughing at us. I’m no Hitch, (another 2000’s shout out) but I’d
like to think there’s more to relationships than that.
Now comes the fun stuff, I get that it’s an election year and people are all riled up, but there’s a limit. First:
5. The Radically Liberal Democrat
We get it. You just finished your first year of college and your professors completely opened your eyes on what’s wrong with the world. But for the rest of us who got out of that stage, seeing endless shared posts about how much of a sex god Bernie Sanders probably is, or how much better the world would be with free ganja is just annoying.
6. The Radically Conservative Republican
We all know that Barack Obama wasn’t a popular president, but honestly who is? People will see flaws where they want to see them. But endless shared posts about how his race, or metaphors of how he is giving half of your earnings to the lazy, has run its course. By about eight years.
7. The Radical Libertarian
Just because you share endless posts and facts (some hold merit, some don’t) about how both sides are wrong, and that the government is corrupt, doesn’t make you look like the smartest person on the Internet like you might think. You’re simply a contrarian who just comes off as cynical. Then there’s a whole different beast …
8. The Fearful Conspiracy Theorist
9/11, the moon landing, Sandy Hook, or any other huge event in the last century you can think of, all happened just as presented. The government may do some shady things but they aren’t demons straight out of Dante’s inferno trying to kill us all for oil. Now stop it. You’re offending more people than you may think you’re helping.
Politics in general are one of the taboo topics that you never bring up in everyday conversation with religion being the other. The same should go for everybody’s social media timelines. Instead of complaining about it behind a keyboard, go do something about it.
Social media is great for a variety of reasons, just as it’s annoying and harmful for the same ones. But as a society, this is where we have chosen to go. Good or bad, we have to keep on trucking, and look toward the future as opposed to the past, and being intentionally antagonistic in doing so.
