Having noticed my perception of most things become quite altered as of recent date, I thought I would have a good old fashioned rant.
1) Comparing your situation to that of others; we all do it, and it's made simpler by having everyone you ever even spoke to posting their lives on an app on your phone. It's human nature but for the love of god I miss knowing what my own authentic opinions are. It's all well and good saying that you can spend some time on your own, reading meditating or doing anything else so damn composed but even then; I'm fairly convinced that my opinions would manage to be filtered though something I had seen on any of these social networking sites that I hate myself for being a part of.
2)People, including me; all actually believe that we were and are immune to the brainwashing process that is current social media. When the sad fact is, we are not. Some may have been more affected than others but it got to everyone in some way, and continues to.
3) Things like double standards, overt offensiveness and general bad taste seem to overrun anything I even briefly glance at, almost as if it's not funny or worthy of anything if someone won't be upset by it's broadcast. (I will at this point highlight that this as well as probably this whole post is comprised of generalisations I believe to be relatable, not fact.) As an example of this I saw an article the other day entitled ''7 reasons date a woman with an Eating Disorder'', words simply cannot illustrate how upset and angry that made me. I don't for a second think that monitoring the internet would help anything, however I really don't want to keep coming across that sort of thing, especially on a site as with so many young impressionable people using it.
4) Do I even need to say this one? Advertising. So many companies are buying out space on sites like facebook ect, that it's a wonder if anything we see on our news feed/profile is actually what we followed upon creating the account as apposed to yet more brainwashing material. This one strangely enough ties the whole rant together quite neatly. Make-up, clothing, hair products and other such like matter, tend to have a concept structure to them; the promise or suggestion of something about your life improving as soon as you own or use said product. OR the more dangerous one; Some model who has been so airbrushed she is no longer a version of human I am familiar with, and is probably covered in absurdly expensive merchandise. All in all leads to a fairly clouded first idea of what life should be like don't you think?
