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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the solution is to stay off social media because:
"too many kid photos"
"too many pet photos"
"too many selfies"
"too much bragging about their kids"
"too much bragging about their work accomplishments"
"too much politics"
"too many braggy vacation photos"
"too much whining about personal problems"
"too many food posts. I don't care about that ham sandwich you had for lunch."

These are all complaints I have heard from real people. Maybe this is why I never post on social media. I'm not sure what is left to post about  :lol: [/quote]

I mean, this is the problem with social media, is that it aggregates everything. Most of what people complain about seeing on social media, they wouldn't mind receiving in a text from a friend or close family member. There is something about the public nature of SM, combined with the fact that everyone is doing it all at once, that grates.

Like if a friend told me she was super proud of her kid's grades this semester, especially if she talked about how it was an improvement or she knew how hard her kid worked for those grades, I'd be thrilled for her. Zero judgment. But on social media, if multiple people shared their kid's grades, it starts to feel like you are being inundated and it's weird.

I don't just individual people for what they post on social media and I wouldn't tell someone what to post or not post, but the reason I stay off social media is that I do feel like when you see everyone's posts aggregated there, it does tend to feel like too much of kids/vacations/politics/whining/food/work/selfies/pets. I'm not rejecting the people on social media. I'm rejecting the platform itself. I'd rather just hear about this stuff in person or via text or email, where there is context and I can focus on the specific person sharing it instead of getting a feed of everyone I'm connected to sharing at once (or what feels like at once, even though obviously it's not).[/quote]

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