The Social Media Struggle

The sad truth about social media is that your followers become so familiar with your posts that when you post something out of the ordinary they get the sense that "Oh, no! Something is wrong". When in actuality you just reposted a repost from another one of your Social media friends. According to social media if you post a picture with a man he's automatically viewed as your love interest. When in fact he's your uncle, cousin, best friend, or brother. The problem with social media isn't the network -I mean it was created for you to "network"! No everyone who comments/posts under your pictures is not thirsty or in need for you to water their egos. Some people just actually like the pictures. Because I post a meme about love, Your first thought is that I'm being mistreated and I don't know what a real man is -truth is, half you men out there portraying yourselves as men are just as clueless as the females you bash when it comes to knowing the true definition of what a man really is. It isn't because she's fatherless that she allows herself to be treated a certain way -it's because she's insecure and doesn't know a thing about self-love; but it is because that gentleman is and/or has been fatherless that he doesn't know that he shouldn't speak to woman "that way" that he shouldn't treat his girl "that way". The problem with social media does not reside in the domain name. The problem is not the site. The problem is the users on those sites. Your perspective of a person determines how you treat them -it shapes how you view them. A person who views someone as a role model will become offended when the role model posts something his/her viewers see as uncharacteristic. Not knowing her true character to begin with. Have you ever stopped before you drew your own conclusions of people's lives and thought, "well, hey. She is human. She does feel. I don't know her personally"... Social media will have you thinking you are apart of these people's lives. You think because she posts regularly, that each picture she's posting is a picture of her each day... I know mine aren't unless it says "me today" (or something of that nature). You think because she responds to your comments that you're friends. You think because she posts a picture with a man and she uses the term "bae" that they're in a relationship. People can't be close friends or just have a connection without your assumptions and your imaginations going wild? Any site that allows me to post pictures, I'm going to do just that -post pictures! It doesn't matter how I'm feeling in that moment, I could be cracking jokes and sitting next to my man and re-post a meme about the struggle with relationships and finding a good man. In that moment it had nothing to do with anything I was dealing with; but because I liked it, I felt it held some truth and it was relatable, I posted it... Now all of a sudden me and my boo are "going through"? Honestly, people are hilarious. They're even more hilarious when they feel they know my truth. It's sad when people don't seem to understand that it's just a picture that I shared. Why can't a post just be a post? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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