With the increasing amounts of social networking sites available to the tiny human brain and the massive ego that comes with it, i ask What should social networking sites really be used for?
If your answer to this is 'social networking' then go home because this train of thought is going to be far too intelligent for you.
So you're on Facebook to converse with friends. This is all very well but there's always one twat around that needs to remember his place and frankly I'm that other twat that wants to put him there.
There's always going to be conflict as not everyone thinks the same. If we all thought the same we'd be like 1930s Russia (or the Labour Party), and as long as you avoid outrageous points of view you can manage to voice an opinion and be relatively safe right? WRONG. We have on our hands an epidemic of 'keyboard warriors', one doesn't like to stereotype but these are usually one of the following; spotty faced teens, SnapBack wearers (usually one and the same), the underclass (Jeremy Kyle-ites), people with limited teeth, people with 11 toes, (Jeremy Kyle-ites), teenage mums, stay at home parents, business execs, dickheads (usually one and the same) ...yanno actually, it can be just about anyone. What you find when it comes to social networks, everyone wants to be everyone else's friend. Even when they think they're a wanker. Noone ever blocks anyone else and noone ever agrees with anyone else so one rather finds themself in a tiz. As a mini conclusion, Facebook has the best intentions but human nature steps in to lower all standards. Sorry Zuckerberg, (like that guy doesn't LOVE the drama and stupidity of human kind).
The latest love of tge masses; Twitter, why are you even a thing? It's like a Facebook for the vocabulary challenged. Limiting how much we can say? Don't you dare attempt to limit my opinion. Hash tagging? Who da heyll is dis guy? 'Oh Ellie it's applicable to a topic that is trending, ya?' no mate, I don't see 'happy girl' trending, I see you with your head tilted to one side and doing some poor pouting, giving your best 'pretend not to hate myself' face. I see no trend in this insincerity. That's what I despise about twitter. It is the equivalent in society to the friendship groups that call each other babe and hug upon a greeting and a farewell. Facebook is the real friend. The 'ayup shit bag *pinches a crisp*' its honest about the 'bite back' it offers and encourages it like the true bastard it is, twitter is the false friend, the liar, the 'oh darling *hug* I love your increasingly tight, moose knuckle inducing leggings. They must, I mean they must be Topshop latest ya. Can't chat, must dash, ciao *hug*'
I get its place in news and pr and advertising. I get it if your marketting a product or boosting your image but as far as 'social networking' goes its insincere, and its 'passing comment' qualities make it dangerous. With it being a small mass of words you may think you go directly to cyber space but say the wrong thing, say something as far away from trending as possible and you'll be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Pictures? Tumblr is one of my favourite sites on the Internet, its honest in its entirety and its visual based. It's a marvel. With the exception of the over dominance of the following; self harm, unhappy lesbians, porn, screamo bands and increasingly one direction, who, I never really thought were cool enough for tumblr. And When I say cool I mean dark. Tis very unusual. As tumblr is marketted at the sincere, once again, we have the increasing emergence of Instagram which I hate with every fibre of my being. It is to tumblr what I feel twitter is to Facebook. It's yet another great idea having its integrity compromised and then made mainstream. I'm not saying mainstream is bad I'm saying mainstream is bad when it overly simplifies what is already a perfect concept just so the meatheads and the cotton candy brains of the world can share pictures of their arse. Pinterest is yet another variation. Need I go on really? They're all pretty much the same concept just with varying degrees of popularity.
I could go on... Mavensay for the photographers and musicians among us but with a slightly too high brow key system, one could get lost within its homepage whilst not really connecting with anything other than the ground when you pass out from anxiety after being unable to navigate away from the dashboard for 3 days...
Linked in for the business elites and desperate university graduates... GIVE ME A JOB it cries as you type 'graduated from Sheffield hallam university 2014 with a first in BA Public relations, interested in political communications and have no skeletons in closet whatsoever, here follow this link to my twitter and Facebook and see how I never leave the house, am a virgin and have been t-total since 1964' and click 'connect'.
There's more. And as I'm told frequently by my lecturers 'there's just so many emerging day by day...I mean whatever next?!' What next? Well i'd say either technological world domination, worldwide revolution and the fall of capitalism, or a big fuck of fight Cos bitches can't calm their tits on Facebook and an eventual government control on social networking as well as the media. Just a thought like...
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