Social media, a world built on half truths, half bullshit and a whole lot of vanity. Everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame on this platform we have at our disposal. A chance for the recognition for something that half the time is invaluable and a bitch cry and moan statement that most of the time is for nothing. Now let's not get it twisted, there is some valuable information to be had and some interesting things to be seen. If you can wade through all the click bait and lies which is very time consuming, and yeah half the internet is like that, so it's take everything you see and read with a grain of salt and a lot of google searching. Let's look at the other side of it too. Coming from a man's point of view there are a lot of beautiful ladies to be seen and gazed upon. Sorry ladies anything you write above a pic you post we're not reading. We're just checking you out and trying to get into your pants. Let's look at the other side of that coin, you are checking us out too, your just much more subtle about it. Which is probably a good thing because if women thought like men, we would all be in a big pile somewhere! So as I was saying, it's all just mostly whining, complaining, gossiping and looking for recognition for something that is substandard, irrelevant or just complete bullshit and I'll save all the political headaches for another post. That in itself is a whole other mess that requires far more thought and Jack Daniels to deal with at this moment. So I digress again. We all want to be heard and recognized, no matter what the cost of dignity or whatever moral. The big thing is we all tend to forget that there is a much bigger world outside, with far greater and better things to be seen other than staring at our phones and wondering what the latest trend or gossip is. I'm guilty of it myself at times and get caught up in it. But I am humbly reminded after awhile that there are better sights to be seen and lessons to be learned outside of a phone screen. And my biggest issue with social media and technology is that there are far better ways to interact with people and have a more meaningful conversation. We are forgetting more and more how to have an intelligent face to face conversation. We have lost the dialect, energy and eye contact, that is a face to face conversation, not just words on a screen. Now I use it myself for a quick message but in my opinion it shouldn't be used for a full on conversation about something interesting and or important. We have become hermits with a screen full of words and a pic for conversation. Setting all that aside, that is what we're missing, a sit down face to face conversation with eye contact and dialogue. We have truly forgotten how to interact with one another and just take an interaction and the energy of social settings for granted.This is my opinion and yes I could be completely wrong about all this, but there is a lot more honesty, truth, life and energy in a face to face conversation. It allows us to read each other better, and an energy that cannot be replicated through a phone and body language and facial expressions that are overlooked.Try it out and think about it, I might be right.
In closing as I said before, there are good qualities to be had for any social media platform but ruling out face to face conversations shouldn't be one of them. Food for thought.
Eric Val
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