A lot of people seem to think that blocking someone on social media is rude, petty, and immature. I disagree
There are a ton of apps out there that were built specifically to help you with any mental health issue you might have, from depression to anxiety to anything else. They’re a great way to take your phone, which can typically be a source of some negative things, into something positive.
Social media is such a hot topic. A lot of people judge others for using it a lot, but the truth is, it can be a great thing. I’m all for having a healthy relationship with social media, but I will say that it’s incredibly easy to get too obsessed to the point where you need to take a break. It doesn’t have to be a dramatic delete-your-account moment, but taking a week off or even setting some parameters about how often you can check it could change your life. I know that sounds crazy, but hear me out! I take periodic week-long breaks from social media, and it works. It resets my brain, frees up my time, and makes me much more productive.
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When one scrolls through Instagram, it is with the implicit knowledge that nothing seen there is real, exactly. This is an accepted fact on this social media platform, perhaps even more than any other, because Instagram is all about curation–amassing soft-lit, soft-smile selfies, VSCO-filtered brunches, and the occasional squad photo with a perfectly pithy caption (“We like each other…sometimes”). This results, if you’re doing it right (a subjective term, of course) in a perfect Instagram account–one with a matching color palette, acceptable following-to-follower ratio, and, of course, a good number of likes on every photo. The only problem with this? It’s not that much fun. This is where Finstagrams–Finstas for short, fake Instagrams for long–come into the mix.
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At this point, I think we can all agree that, for most of us, the line between being online and offline has basically become more or less impossible to distinguish. Where once there was a clear divide between ”URL” and “IRL,” there is now nothing, really, that creates a barrier between the two–for most people, everything that happens in real life is basically just curation. You know, trying to figure out how to make what’s happening in your actuallife a means of becoming 100% popping in your online life–Snapchatting everything, Insta-ing all of your brunches in the hopes that, one day, you might become a veritable Viral Meme (don’t believe me? Just ask Damn Daniel).
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When we type “LOL,” are any of us actually laughing?
Wait, let me backtrack for a minute. Tone is everything. With the help of body language, our ears pick up on the laughter in a friend’s voice or the obvious irritation in our dad’s voice. It determines the way somebody comes across and it determines our reaction. But when we depend on text instead of audio or visuals to communicate, that’s when things get tricky. It’s notoriously difficult to understand somebody’s tone via the internet, texting, etc, which leads to miscommunication or the fear of coming off the wrong way. In fact, the way we talk online is more than just lingo, it’s a new dialect in which the inclusion of an exclamation mark can turn a conversation from terse to playful. All of this has an impact on how we talk to each other, and how we use words.
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Instagram is, without question, my favorite social media platform. I love sharing pictures, looking at pictures my friends post, and pretending like I’m in-the-know about what celebrities are doing behind the scenes. I’ll admit that I put effort into appearing effortlessly cool on Instagram, and I’ll also admit that I do a lot of embarrassing things on Instagram. Make fun of me if you want, but I know that deep down, you do these things too. We all do embarrassing things on Instagram, it’s just that most of us refuse to admit it.
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Whenever someone asks me what my favorite athletic pursuit is, I have a very quick, easy go-to answer: It is, of course, stalking whomever I am currently crushing on via social media. Now, some people might say that Internet lurking “isn’t actually exercise” because “all it entails is sitting around on your computer,” but I beg to differ. At this point in my life, no Zumba or SoulCycle class has gotten my pulse to race quite like plumbing the depths of a crush’s presence online to the best of my ability does, whether this crush is a potential, middling, or full-blown one, and hey–cardio is cardio, no matter what, right? (Michelle Obama would absolutely agree with me, I’m pretty sure.)
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While Instagram can be pretty fun, it can also get kind of annoying. I’ve noticed that some users have the worst habits, like abusing filters, begging for follows, and bombarding my feed with way too many photos at once. It can get so frustrating.
One of the worst things about social media is having to make the decision on whether or not you should unfollow or unfriend someone.
The other day, a friend of mine tweeted something along the lines of, “Hey, add me on Peach if you have it too!” with the peach emoji nestled in there. “WTF is Peach?” I briefly wondered.
If you’re a self-proclaimed Twitter addict who wants to make this platform a better place for everyone, then you should definitely take a look at these 18 unwritten rules all Twitter users must follow.