During one of my [many] days off work during the holiday break, I read an article in Real Simple magazine about all of the social media don’ts. By the end of the piece, the only thing on my mind was, “What can you do with social media?
From this article, I learned that I should not:
-Provide useless updates about what I’m eating, watching, reading, listening to, drinking, making, setting on fire, etc.
-Post too many pictures of my pet
-Talk too lovey-dovey about my boyfriend
-Get into any serious religious, political, sports or bagel debates
-Tag (or post) drunk pictures
-Go on a violent and vicious “untagging” spree
-”Like” too many of my friends’ status updates, photos or comments
-Use a bathroom mirror shot for my profile picture
-Make a pouty/duck face in my profile picture (or any photo, for that matter)
-Use a picture of something completely unrelated to my life as my profile picture (for example, a cartoon drawing of a unicorn-dragon)
-Engage in a serious religious, political, sports or bagel debate started by someone else
I’m sure there’s more, but I quit reading after the first page and just looked at all the illustrations and infographics they used. This leads me to believe that someone wants social media to die, because after that list, what on earth is left to do?
So, here’s my semi-professional opinion: Do whatever you want.
… While I may be severely annoyed by your incessant updates about your cat– which you got from the most handsomest man in the world– and the fact that it also enjoys the one-and-only everything bagel (which is the best and here’s a middle finger to all of you who disagree). And I may hate that your profile picture is your reflection in your bathroom mirror, taken after a night of binge drinking and learning that the only face you can successfully make is the duck face. It may even irritate me that you used the comments section of my profile picture as your platform for why you think Jim Carey should be the next President of the United States…
It doesn’t matter.
I say, be who you are. If you lived your real life avoiding a huge list of annoyances, then you wouldn’t really be living, and you wouldn’t be you. So why should being on Facebook or Twitter be any different?
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