Not Your Fight.

June 18, 2020 4:03 am Published by EverEden Leave your thoughts

 

Social Media is a pile of shit.

Social Media is run by a bunch of billionaires who sold you out years ago to the alphabet of authorities through back doors, screengrabs, political interests, facial recognition and algorithms. They use your likes, dislikes, GPS whereabouts and can predict your mood and accurately determine your personality based on years of your bullshit rants and woes in the “update status” field.  We have built it. We built Google’s creepiness with all the weird questions and search terms, downloads and gravitation to whatever the mainstream media puts out. You know what clickbait means…there are headlines and soundbites taken out of context or misspoken but you click it anyway and you feed the beast and it learns what interests you.

Creating fiction means I don’t feel the need to write about reality much anymore and usually don’t write articles or editorials. There are plenty of people who want their opinion/interpretations of events heard…but I do still notice that the news used to be more accurate with reports on factual events. Now it’s agenda and skewed, often parroted by other channels word for word. Listening to the language deliberately used around certain subjects is so obvious; emotive or attempting to cause division into “us and them” is always present  because when you’re infighting, you’re not noticing what’s going on in the background.

I use social media, now that I’m older it’s only catching up with friends, arranging meetings, book/publishing stuff, networking with other writers etc. It’s rare I bother commenting on social issues because there will always be someone who disagrees and is so invested in their perception that they will even come after you personally and try to make you feel bad. Usually these people don’t have the knowledge you do, or maybe they do but it was taken from bias sources, their personal account/confirmation bias etc etc. We’re all guilty of it until we experience another side but until then, some people feel like everyone is entitled to their opinion and screw you if you dare hold a different one!

We’ve all used social media long enough to have said some really dumb stuff. Some of it, jokes that maybe appear offensive in the current political climates, maybe you just wrote a troll comment while you were drunk, some comments you may have even genuinely argued a point that you don’t even support anymore and haven’t thought about for years. Some tweets do not age gracefully, as the saying goes. And, to the Instagram “models” or girls making kissy faces and taking pics of their booty, your grandkids are going to see that eventually! Do your thang gal, get those likes, sponsors and suckers sending money (I really mean it!) but the internet, as they say, doesn’t forget and sometimes people like to remind others of that decades down the track when you are no longer that person.

This blog post is about no one in particular btw, but I was scrolling through social media and came across about 3 different posts where someone was trumpeting their ignorant opinions and blasting feelings in order to try and win complex arguments by appealing to virtues of anyone reading the exchange…and my thumb actually pressed the “add comment” before I caught myself.

                 Nah…you do you, random internet clown.

I CBF being called back to a comment I made weeks ago, off the cuff, out of frustration, or even if it was one I’d put thought into. I don’t care what random people I’ll never meet think or what someone took away from the one liner I barely remembered making by dinner.

You can scroll past things. It doesn’t hurt. You literally think “wow, what an idiot,” or “okay, that person needs an education,” or “I disagree with that status on many levels,” and then move on with your life. Don’t bother writing a reply that’s going to be picked apart by that person’s vulture friends or you’ll be tagged and repeatedly called back to that comment ad nauseam because some people have no lives and will literally keep arguing until you have to block the thread just to get on with your work day.

Beauty is in the eyebrow of the beholder?

A few months ago I scrolled past an advertisement for an eyebrow stamp, an eyebrow shaped ink pad that gave women eyebrows. I wrote something in the comments(–hold onto your hats if you’re a sensitive loser about your dumb face.)

I said that I’ve never had this trouble before, up until recently I never knew eyebrows were a big thing. I’ve literally been stopped by random women in public toilets or the street, stopped in the middle of conversation by a friend(twice) to compliment me on them. I was always bewildered about eyebrows being important.  This product actually looks good for people who think they need it.

Because the product did look interesting(!) I wanted to leave a comment so I could go back to it later to show someone else the product. (Sorry mum,) I know a few people who say their eyebrows are thin and want something to fill them in with, or some people who say they have non-existent brows! Recently (not my mum) someone I know actually had them tattooed to make the area darker! I never paid attention to eyebrows. Mine were always there and just part of my face, but apparently it’s important to some people.

You know how I know this?

Because I got a flood of bullshit replies to my comment, saying I was bragging, I made the comment to make people feel bad, can they get a picture of my eyebrows THEN there were people defending me, and even others writing that it was good I was “confident” about my looks.

Wut.

I commented on a product and how I’d been confused before I saw it. I don’t have the “eyebrow arrogance” I was later accused of. (?!LOL)

I was so amused by the crazy,  and just when I thought it was over, I’d get another notification – more women getting angry about something I’d written two weeks before. I was the Michael Jackson popcorn meme, watching women I’d never meet attack and also defend me over a comment about something IDGAF about. I didn’t even turn off the notifications for this one because it was so funny.

Take it from Joe Rogan; don’t read the comments.

They’re filled with people who are high on something, angry or trolling, looking for an argument, just got dumped, think they’re smarter than you, hate your gender atm, think they have more experience than you, and people like those really dumb ones who will literally call something blue when it’s clearly red, just to mess with your head.

I always for free speech and using your page/profile to say whatever you like but sometimes it’s not worth it. Sometimes it’s best to be a sleeper cell and have your own viewpoint, vote accordingly etc. The world doesn’t need to know your viewpoint on everything all the time, something we forget now. You don’t need to defend your comment either or convince others to come around to your way of thinking because they are not looking for a lesson, and people don’t like to change. Just use your profile to do you, pics of your life or an announcement that you’re releasing a book or getting married or something. It’s not worth doing much else and it’s certainly not worth letting the company’s shareholders gain advertising knowledge or the authorities being able to predict your movements and thoughts based on your profile.

Hashtag:  stuff I wish I realised younger. 😛

 

TLDR:

*Social media is a cesspit, if you aren’t already aware.

*You can scroll past something you disagree with and the world will not end.

*People sometimes post things they dont mean, or while drunk, young and stupid, as jokes etc. You can still be friends with them for other reasons.

*Bitches be maaaad about their eyebrows.

 

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