Social Media Kinda Sucks

This is how we are taught to behave by social media:

• Move without thinking.
• React without compassion.
• Lash out at anyone who is coping in a way that is not your way.

It’s dangerous. Worse yet, it’s unfriendly. Social media is the most antisocial thing around. But we drink it in. We tell people who can run a twitter feed they are “social media experts” and then we pay them money to tell us how we should use the stuff we were using just fine before. And what they tell us, by the way, is to not follow the advice of people telling us how to use social media.

But there we all are. Flocking. Smacking everything in reach so people laugh and share what we said with strangers. It’s a form of validation and it needs shallowness and thoughtlessness to work. So we weigh in on issues that are way too big for short tiny messages anyway, and we do it as fast as possible to not be left out. We don’t think, we don’t reason or live with the issues for tome until it makes sense. We don’t approach it as a question – only as our opinion, which cuts off our ability to say “I am not sure here,” and find people to have open, honest discussion with.

I dunno. I just feel like we know better and should start acting like it more often.