Social Media: The End of Interpersonal Skills and Any Other Form of People Skills We Once Knew...

I was born January 6^th 1989. I think that puts me with the Generation Y crew. At least that's what it's saying on Wikipedia. I can't exactly tell you what is so significant about us Generation Y babies, but I feel like we're a big deal, or we're made out to be a big deal. I dunno, man, I heard it somewhere before. My mother and father are both part of the Baby Boom Generation, my dad being the beginning and my mother being somewhere in the middle. Anyways, I'm slowly getting to my point, bare with me... 

I hate it when people throw me in this "Facebook" Generation class. Yeah, obviously I have one and spend about 5 hours out of my 17 hour day on it. Oh well. But I can't say I've been around it for ever. In fact, I didn't join the "scene" till 2007 when I a ripe 18 years old. Who knew. And I get aggravated with people thinking I can't live with out my cellphone. Well, listen here, yes I am on it constantly, but if I didn't have, I would not have withdrawals. I have it, so I've got to use the shit out of it seeing how it cost $199.99. I didn't join the cellphone "scene" till I was 16. Before that, I did rely on smoke signals to communicate with people. There was once a time when I didn't have a gaming system and I went outside to play. I got dirty, grass stains, cuts and bruises (some looked like child abuse stuff bruises), played on my razor scooter, rode my bike, played manhunt late at night, the whole nine yards. But, now I sit on my ass...

So, of recent, I've seen a few people posting things about how they hate Twitter or some new fads that are posted on Facebook at stupid... etc. I'll be honest, a lot of those "apps" are pretty stupid. I absolutely hate the ones where you can figure out what you cellphones name is. So fucking stupid. And let's be honest, how many people need to post the stupid girls first hard core songs. Does anyone remember the 6 degrees of separations?  I don't need 38 people posting the same fucking video. I got it the first 14 times. That and AOL let me know it was a top story. But thanks for the friendly fucking reminder. I'm going to go rip my fucking finger nails off with a rusty plier...

Then there's those "What people think I do" pictures... Some are funny, most are not. If something interest me, then I'll read it, otherwise, I usually ignore that, like the 38 posts about the stupid girl who sang her first hard core song... I mean, I find it idiotic to complain about people posting stupid things on our, whatever you want to call them, "social media" sites, but yet we spend hours of our day looking at stupid shit on them. Really? I mean, I use Facebook to stalk people most times, and wonder why certain people won't ever accept my friend request, while I peek at what pictures I can see... to catch up with old friends... and that's all I see is stupid shit, but it drives to sit and wait till the next stupid thing is posted so we can bitch entirely all about it (hence this blogs existence)...

That's fucking awesome. Thank you for allowing me to waste my fucking time.

I'm also into Twitter and I'm just getting into the tumblr scene (Yes, I am promoting myself through competing social mediums. What of it?). I hate the so called "reasons" for disliking Twitter. Listen, I get it, some people just aren't into it and that's fine. I'm not going to convince you why it's awesome and that everyone on the face of the planet needs one. It took me years to fully get into it. I'm also a Corporate Communications major and it'll basically be somewhere in my job description. But all that is besides the point. So, the number one reason I hear twitter "sucks" is because people don't want to post stupid things like, "I'm taking a shit." or "I'm eating a burger." nor do they want to read shit like that. Guess what? Neither do I! And you know who complains about shit like that? Those fuck heads that found out what their cellphones name is... *bangs head on the computer* FML...

So, I guess in conclusion, social mediums are cool. Yeah, there may be some risks involved with people stealing you identity and/or/not limited to: raping you, breaking into your home, murder, bullying, the shits, stealing your socks... But, so are the other normal things like jogging, riding a fucking bike, driving. Hell, maybe you end up on either 1000 ways to die and/or The Darwin Awards... Also, I'm sick of people bitching about what other people's shit they post. Why are you so damn concerned? Yes, there are some things I think are stupid, but face it, you probably don't post "perfect" things either. Everyone is entitled to post things. I'm entitled to ignore it. But instead we make big deals over these things when we can do something as simple as ignoring it. Hell, five people might look at this, but most people will overlook it and that's fine with me. I write because, A.) Someone will read this, and B.) it allows my writing skills to stay...ish... But listen, I really gotta get back to creeping on an old high school crush's Facebook... bouncing around the social mediasphere... meet some new people... do white collar things... I just gotta fucking go, OKAY! This is why I don't talk to people in the real world. My Twitter followers are more understanding...

Side note: to the people that bitch about people's grammar... Fuck you!