Social Media

I haven't ranted for absolutely ages; but today I am going to have a rant about social media.  And when I say 'social media', I mean Facebook.

I would imagine that the majority of you reading this RANT have a FB account.  I have to admit that I am totally, utterly and completely addicted to FB.

However.................. what I am going to RANT about today is....................... the growing abundance of the 'I LOVE (insert where you live here)' pages.  In my opinion, these pages are really useful for doing stuff like finding lost dogs and reuniting keys and lost bank cards with their owners.

What they're not really useful for is..................................  the growing trend for people to humiliate and publically shame people when they are just going about their normal day to day life.

I'm a member of two or three of these 'I LOVE (insert where you live)' sites and in the last week or so I've seen posts of someone trying to break into houses (which to me is actually a positive thing - it's alerted those of us in the neighbourhood to be more aware) but I've also seen posts of people having a disagreement over something which doesn't actually have anything to do with anything in the real world.  And then all of a sudden, there's more than 70 comments from other people who had actually nothing to do with the original disagreement.

Why do people feel the need to do this?

What is it about our society today that means that we have to conduct our whole life online?

In the 'good old days', we talked to people, we fell out and if we wanted to make up with them we did it in person.  These days, stuff gets put online and then everyone else sees it and thinks they can jump on the bandwagon and a weeny, teeny, trivial little problem seems to get blown out of all proportion because zillions of other people have commented on it.  It's mad!

I post a lot of stuff on social media and I am well aware that anything I post, is out there for the world to see.  However, what I don't do.......................... is post comments on the 'I LOVE (insert where you live) sites, or any other sites.  I don't do this for two reasons:

1   Anything you post is out there for the whole world to see forever.

2   I really can't be bothered to get involved with the petty dialogues that go back and forwards.  Obviously I like RANTING and sometimes, I'd just love to post a comment on some of the ridiculous posts that I see on these sites...........................  But I don't, because I'm trying to be the bigger person.  LOL!

It's MAD, MAD, MAD.

For example, there's a trolley in the middle of the road on a Sunday morning?  Why doesn't someone just remove it and take it back to the supermarket?  Is it really necessary to post a picture on FB and start a huge dialogue about why a trolley was in the middle of a road early on a Sunday morning?  We all know why there's a trolley in the middle of a road on a Sunday morning.  .............Drunk people took it from the supermarket on a Saturday night and abandoned it.  Well that's what we'd all assume 30 years ago????

Does it really warrant a HUGE discussion on FB.  Yes, there's a problem in the area but why can't people just talk to each other.

Anyway, I really can't be bothered to post any more because if I did, I be like all these other mad people on FB who seem to have nothing else to do apart from post comments on stuff which doesn't actually have anything to do with them.

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