WHEN WILL BE STOP USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO AIR OUR GRIEVANCES?

Yes everyone has bad days and emotional turmoil. The Internet isn’t the place to deal with them.

At its invention, I’m not entirely sure what social media was created to do. In a basic sense it was likely a tool for people to keep connections with long distance family or friends. Somewhere along the way, that simple concept gets lost and the use of social media now seems to be a place where we not only share stylized photoshoots, but also emote everything.

From our children to our political opinions, there’s pretty much nothing we leave unshared to our social media pages.

Another thing people share to their social media pages is their emotional conflicts and sorrows. This honestly needs to stop.

Emotions and the sorrow we encounter in our lives is important. We all have these and we all deal with them differently. I’m sympathetic to people having to walk through challenges and I think having a good cry is needed.

What isn’t needed is creating an aesthetic moment or pretty candlelit scene where we then film ourselves crying solely to share a vulnerable moment.

Sadly some of these videos aren’t real in that they’re more for likes and curated content versus genuine feelings. But there are real emotions for some and some people are being vulnerable.

Vulnerable things are, unfortunately, a part of our lives. They’re also good to talk about and work through, and sometimes, yes, cry over. But the Internet isn’t the place to air these grievances. Our best friend or sister, mother or spouse, therapist or pastor, these people who know us in our daily lives, who walk life with us, these are the people we should talk to.

The ones who love us and care about us, these are the voices we should want to hear us. Not the people in our follower count who don’t understand our hurts, struggles or the way we feel these things.

Whether we realize it or not or wish to admit it, this method isn’t healthy. It’s not helping us heal or have a healthy perspective on these emotions. The day we realize this is the day that better begins.