How Social Media Has Ruined Our Generation
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How Social Media Has Ruined Our Generation

Because our social media comes before our personal well-being

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How Social Media Has Ruined Our Generation

Our generation is texts sent at 11:43 and read at 11:47. It's 1:36 and you're still waiting- hopeful, phone in hand, for a text that you know is not going to come.

Our generation is feelings played out over twitter, where your thoughts, words, and ideas must not exceed 140 characters. Where follow back's and friendships are determined by tweets and pictures posted. "following 963 but only followed by 349? No thank you."

Our generation is screenshots that expose the truth, group messages that have the ability to ruin someone's whole life, but not to worry, "what's said in the GM must stay in the GM". We are hashtags that set standards on how young men and women should look, act, and be.

Here's a hashtag for you: #StopShamingPeopleWhoLiveDifferentlyThanYou

Our generation is the ability to cut someone out of your life completely just by the click of the blocked button. Our first thoughts are "why did he like her picture?" or "Why hasn't he DM'd me yet??"

We are names in bio's and pictures posted with the caption "Relationship Goals." We spend more time looking for conformation from followers than we do appreciating the people we have right in front of us. Our world is run by likes, views, favorites, and retweets. We spend more time worrying about which filter to put on our pictures or where the cool geo-tags are instead of living in the now.

We are calling people out by @'ing them just for a few favs and retweets and posting pictures in hopes that one specific person will see it, hopefully making them "feel some type of way." Emojis determine our mood and DM diving is the way to ask people out. Our lives revolve around our social medias and our virtual image is everything to us.

Our relationships begin and eventually end on social media and we wonder why things never work out? We wonder why everyone knows what's going on in our personal lives? Why she and you aren't friends anymore, or what happened between you and that one guy. It's because every single thing is played out through social media, everything is posted, and everyone can see it. Maybe some day we will realize that your business is YOUR business and not you plus all 1,134 of your followers. The sooner we figure that out, the less time we will spend on trying to be someone on a website filled with people who honestly and truly don't give a shit. Our generation is going through the #Struggle and we are the only ones who can do something about it.

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