Sunday, August 5, 2018

Little to No Little Postings

One thing that has always baffled me is why some people make the conscious decision to post every little thing that they are doing while others choose to post barely anything. For those that choose to posting everything they do, I’ve always wondered why. Let’s face it, nobody really cares that much about why another person is doing. They might say they do but they really don’t because chances are they are too busy dealing with own lives to really and truly care that much about someone else. There’s also the fact that this person isn’t a celebrity or anything. The only people who I feel would geger feel the need to post so compulsively would be a celebrity. Despite the fact that they are just regular people who can act well, sing well, dance well, or are are just simply famous to be famous and don’t have any true talent  (Kardashians) are really the only type of people that other people care enough about to want to hear everything that is going on in their lives. I personally am not one that is keeping up with the Kardashians... (see what I did there?) because I don’t care enough about them. They are completely talentless and I really don’t understand why they’re even famous. Then again, you really don’t need much talent to become famous. Also, nobody’s life is truly that interesting that they’d even get enough likes for every excessively useless thing they posted.
I have a “friend” let’s call her Melissa. Now you see Melissa is the kind of person who feels the compulsive need to post about anything and everything that is going on in her life. From every movie that she watches, to every time she is getting her nails done, or even when she is going out to eat. I used to follow her on social media (because I was an idiot but fortunately I have since learned from my mistakes) but because I didn’t want my newsfeed to consist of the majority of her useless postings I made the wonderful decision to unfollow her. And let me tell you that was one of the best decisions of my life. I no longer have to see her face or her stupidly useless and boring posts. Now I can spend my time looking at postings of other friends that I actually care about. Honest to god though, stalking her wouldn’t be too difficult because not only does she post everything she also posts the location of where she is at too. However, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to find her if she went missing. All we’d have to do is follow the trail of postings. The worst thing she did was post the results of the olympics. She doesn’t live in the states so she would get the results before us and ruin it for everyone here. Needless to say, she’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Anyways, I reached out to her as well as some other people and asked why they chose to post more often than others. The most typical response I got for the oversharers was that they just simply liked to let people know what they were doing. For the nonsharers the general response was that they either forgot they made a social media account or that they didn’t feel the need to share what they were doing all the time and they preferred to be in the moment with whoever they are. Some people will post the 30+ pictures they took while on vacation while others you wouldn’t  even know they went on a vacation. Some people are more private than others and I get that.
With some people, it’s not that they are constantly posting about what they are doing but it’s every little complaint and inconvenience that occurs in their day to day life and it gets to the point where their posts turn more and more into them whining and complaining about trivial things. Those are equally annoying because that person never has anything good to say and all you hear from them is whining and whining about this and that and it doesn’t take long for that to get annoying. We all have little inconveniences that occur in our day to day lives but some of us are smart enough to not post about every single one of those things and we just deal with whatever crappy thing we are dealing with. If I were to post about every little annoyance that happened in my life, I would have a lot of annoyed friends. When asked, most people said they do it with the hopes that other people will be able to relate and empathize with what they are going through just so that they know they are not alone in whatever they are going through.
Another type of oversharer are the types of people who are constantly sharing some meme or funny video they saw and they only share things but never actually post anything about their lives. These types of people could easily share 15+ memes or videos in a very short time span. The people I’ve noticed who are guilty of doing such things are grown adults who have jobs and kids. It truly baffles me how exactly these people have all this time to be sharing things. Because sharing this much stuff means that they must have a lot of free time on their hands to be scrolling through all that to be finding all those things to share. I asked why they did that and most people said it was because they didn’t feel as if they had anything interesting enough to post about but they want to post about something so instead they just share like 1,000 things per minute. I guess I can understand that it’s just that sometimes it would be nice to hear about what’s going on in that person’s life. If that person were to be murdered and the police were to question their friends to ask about what that person was like, I swear the only thing I’d be able to tell that cop would be that I don’t have any idea because all they did was share memes all day long so as a result I never was able to learn about who they were as a person. What a horrible thing a cop would have to tell the parents.
While those may all seem unrelated, one thing that they do have in common in the inability to be in the moment and the compulsive need to post. With the oversharers, how annoying would it be if every time you hung out with someone they HAD to post about it. Like the person can’t even go to brunch without letting 100 other people know that they are drinking mimosas. With the whiny people, they are unable to be in the moment & just deal with whatever is happening. It’s like oh having a mental break down, panic attack, or anxiety attack? Oh wait, gotta post about it. And with the meme people it would be pretty annoying if you were with someone and all they did was scroll through their phone because “gotta share the perfect video or somewhat relatable meme.”
I hate all these types of people which is why I chose to greatly reduce the frequency of my postings for fear of becoming one of those types of people.

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