It’s
been a long time that I don’t write either post anything in my blog. so here I
am, waking up from my life which is dominated by agitation and thoughts
(that’ve perhaps had taken my precious time to be real. I mean really doing
something) and bringing a post with content. I know this will sound a bit private and some of you will possibly disagree with this, because this is
my opinion from my perspective and point of view, so it’s totally fair for you
to have different opinions about how social media influences yours.
Almost everybody
has at least one social media, it reaches almost all range of ages (except babies or except their irresponsible and intervening parents made them one since they were just born in a purpose not to inspire but only to gain fame and reputation). I won’t go too far
about this kind of talk because it will be boring to read :’D. So without any
further ado, let’s get started.
I
was just 13 when the first I made social media. I didn’t quite understand nor know the purpose of making accounts.
But most of my friends were actively using social media as well
so hell yeah I wanted to be as cool
as them (ladies and gentlemen this is a simple exempli gratia of conformity).
1 1.
Facebook
I
made a Facebook account and I operated it like such a nuts (now I take that as a total
regret haha). After about one year I’ve had been actively using Facebook, I stopped using it and made a twitter account. Here's why:
As a kid but at the same time not using my age as an excuse, I didn't know how important for an adult to watch out their kid's social activity online that time (a.k.a I didn't get any supervision I was gone wild and crazy). Facebook was toxic for me and I also happened to be the "poisonous" one. I wrote statuses so carelessly, I wrote basically whatever thoughts that popped out of my mind at the moment. I did hate speech on some fan page just because I unreasonably hated the worshiped subject. In conclusion, I was just plain stupid lol. I'm actually pretty glad that now I'm aware of anything I did wrong the whole time I used it, so I learned from my mistake, and I officially quit Facebook.
Things
I get from having Facebook in my point of view:
1.
Make friends
with people that have the same taste of films (for example with potterheads; a
call for those who are big fan of Harry Potter)
2.
Regrets.
3.
Regrets.
4.
Regrets.
5.
Yuck.
I indeed was too young and wasn’t
be able to control myself yet, emotionally AND intentionally.
2.
Twitter
Twitter
does give some bad impacts for me although I'm still an active user until now. When the early months I made twitter I was so excited to tell people about what I’ve been through that
day or what I was thinking and pour them in a form of tweet(s). To be honest, I’ve had been
that girl who could send 10 tweets per day. That was embarrassing :’D. But s/o
to twitter!
Anyhoo, be careful in using it. I had a story, back in the day I got triggered by a thread from a man (he's a selebtweet actually) who was talking about how my generation is somehow lazier, dumber, and impolite in terms of behavioral issue than the old ones. The context was students in school. I quote tweeted his thread saying how disagree I was with his thread, "it's totally unfair to generalize your thoughts on how MY generation is! Yadda yadda yadda." And the war begun....
He replied, I replied, then he replied again I WAS SO MAD I replied him back whatever guys, all I knew was I did care enough to win the argument but thinking about it again, I would say that it was not necessary to do whatsoever??? Like how the heck did I was so furious to defend my cohort lmao. I got easily triggered back then. Moral of the story: Don't let other people's opinion triggers you, it's a waste of time arguing on twitter and winning an argument doesn't always proof that your argument is true/right/good. My additional message on using twitter: Please just don't get convinced so easily on the news on twitter, do check and re-check coz nowadays hoax are spreading rapidly and that is so insane.
3.
Path
Ok.
I think path was not my kind of social media. I used path actively for
about 4-5 months. Simply, path is a media to share the place where you’re
at recently, or what movies you are watching, what songs you are hearing and
those all are your moments. If Facebook
has status, Twitter has tweets, then path has moments to share.
I
joined path purely because lots of my friend use it as well (or in other word I
was trying to be cool smh?). At first I didn’t understand how to use path, then I began
to share rubbish as my moments but my
friends on path seemed really cool sharing moments that they are at the mall,
that they are eating good meals in a luxury restaurants or any other cool
place. and it made me like “Damn I gotta
go to this mall I have to order this food in that restaurant I should
watch this cool movie at cinema SO I CAN BE AS COOL AS THIS CHIC” and such things like that. But I didn’t do it for sure. I got influenced to be cool the way people trying to be cool on
path but thank God I stopped using path that immediate time :”D.
P/S : I don’t blame on path, I blame on the way I
used path, my perceptions after actively joined path, and how it influenced me so effin bad. No offense ;).
4.
Instagram
Firstly
first, I’ve been active on Insta since I was 14 (when I was in 8th
grade I guess) till now. So It's a cruel 3 years to be the part of Instagram
society. I don’t wanna talk about what kinda cringey pictures I’ve posted (because I know a lot of people also went
through that :”D).
But, did anybody ever presume number of ’followers’ and ‘following’
as a reputation?
Ok be done with the embarrassment, I did. I was owning an app
to check who have unfollowed (so I could unfollow them back cause I don’t wanna
be their fans like, gurl what is wrong with u?) and I checked it almost everyday cause I was… hmm I don’t know
why I ever had that intention. Insecure? Depressed? Plain unstable mentally? Idk smh.
But then I started thinking. These people who
unfollowed me, I don’t even talk to them in person, then why should I get upset.
Maybe they think that my account is inactive, maybe they do it by accident, or maybe
they are going through what I’ve been through when I worried about those such
things.
But
guys, those are just ‘numbers’. Since
I have this thought I’ve deleted that app and don’t give a shit about people
who unfollowed me. As long as they don’t disturb me and make a mess of my life neither do I, it doesn’t matter.
Shout out
to you who never go through this obnoxious phase, u’re pretty strong and smart in being an instagrammer.
And
until next then, sleep well.
I used to have that app too to know who unfoll me wkwk lel. But no I hadn't gone with the cringe-photos-phase :V
BalasHapusS/o to u :”vv
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