I'm not talking just romantic relationships, but all kinds.
Couples get in fights over that psycho ex favoriting a tweet or liking an Instagram or Facebook post (which they only know from also being psycho and looking at who all liked or favorited it).
Friendships are jeopardized because Heaven forbid you retweet a girl on Twitter your BFF doesn't like, or you like a guy’s picture on Facebook that she used to like... in high school.
You're always wondering who your significant other is texting when you're not around. Or Snapchatting. Or Facebook messaging. Or DMing. Or social media stalking.
It used to be if you wanted to talk to someone, you called them. You know, that weird thing where you can actually hear someone's voice and hear the tone they're trying to convey. Then you actually know that what they were saying was meant to be taken sarcastically. Until texting gets tone capabilities so you can tell how a text was supposed to be interpreted, people will inevitably fight because they misread the message.
But now you can't even go to dinner without the person you're out with checking their phone every 30 seconds five minutes. Dinner is supposed to be when you catch up with your friends, not catch up on social media stalking. It’s making us lose the beautifulness that is human interaction.
And then there's the labeling. Everyone hates to “label” his or her relationship--or whatever it is.
Everyone, especially college kids in the "hook-up culture" of today, always complain that they "just don't like labels. Why do we have to put a title on it like boyfriend and girlfriend?" "It's just a thing."
What the hell does that actually mean anyway? That you like me but not enough to only talk to me because you still want to be semi available to other people?
"We're just talking, it's nothing serious."
Yeah, nothing serious until one of you posts an Instagram, or a picture on Facebook, and then there is the terrifying spot for a caption:_______________. What. Do. You. Say.
Say nothing and you're an ass.
Make it too lovely and the other one will think it means way more than it actually does and think it’s moving too fast.
Use an emoji and you might be okay, but there's a slim list of approved ones.
All we care about is everyone else's approval and trying to make it seem like we have these perfect lives and perfectly happy relationships through social media.
Instead of writing a novel of a lovey-dovey Facebook/Instagram post about how much you just looooooove your BFF or your significant other, how about you just show them how much they mean to you. It’s really true, that old saying: actions speak louder than words. Even telling them in person would mean more than some words written on an app for the world to read. Actually hearing those words means so much more when it's face to face.
So who’s with me? Let’s put our phones down and just live in the moment. After all, life is merely a combination of all of our moments and memories. Do you really want to miss out on some of the greatest ones because you were too busy staring down at a virtual world that means nothing?
