How much is too much?

When it comes to social media, how much sharing is too much sharing?

We've all been guilty of it, posting our happiness and love for our family and friends, frustration at the stop start motorways, and how could we forget the sad song lyrics after a break up.

Mumma always said, don't air your dirty laundry.

Do people really need to know you're about to rage quit life because it took you an hour to get to work, instead of the usual thirty minutes?
Do you really think that the people that care, are the ones who 'like' your crying emoticon?

I scroll through my facebook news feed, and there's always people complaining about their lives, their relationships, their work, and everything else they can possibly think of.

When did the art of having a real conversation die? Or even being grateful for the things you have?
Not to mention keeping your personal issues to the people involved, and not to people you met three years ago but don't speak to at all, you just like their selfie every now and again.

Is it a generation thing? My parents have facebook, but they don't bad mouth and post cryptic (but so obvious) statuses about their fights.. it's just unnecessary. No one cares that you're baby daddy didn't come home last night. Take it up with him, not the 'hundreds' of 'friends' you don't speak to.

 

Even though I am part of Gen Y, it seems I haven't adopted the usual characteristics.

I don't go out to dinner or hang out with my friends and sit on my phone, refreshing my facebook, snapchat, twitter or instagram to see what's new..

I have real company in front of me.. why would I need to occupy myself with text and pictures?

 But it seems, this is all I see when I take a look around...   ↓↓↓

Although, I agree that social media is a great way to keep in touch if you work different hours to your friends, trying to organise a group event or just want to tag people in a hilarious cat video you found... then yes, that's where it comes in handy. Even now, I'm using it to express my beliefs and life events, which to me seem meaningful, but to you may seem like garbage.

But I'm taking about the crying, whiney statuses and pictures, that just make you want to shoot yourself in the head, that make you want those few seconds of your life back.

So, the question is, does it help us to deal with our emotions and connections? 

Or does it make us more vulnerable?

Studies have shown that there are more negatives affects of social media, than there are positive.

1. Social media is addictive and can make us lose concentration at work, when studying and even when in the company of real people

2. Social media makes us compare our lives with others

3. Social media makes us restless. Majority of people become frustrated when unable to use social media

4. Social media has risen cyberbullying

5. Social media can lead to FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

So please, pick up the phone and call your buddies, go outside and leave your phone in your bag or pocket. Just enjoy the company and human interaction, instead of the posts and selfies.

Well played world;

I am not what you would call a 'lazy' person, but every now and again, I do let my car look like the zombie apocalypse hit earth three years ago.

That said, today I felt like being extra productive.... so I cleaned my car. Not only did I wash it once, but I washed it twice to ensure every spec of dirt had vanished before I started to chamois.
Holy moly, boy did it look like a fresh diamond out of a jewellery shop.

To reward myself for this feeling of pure accomplishment, I decided to go get a new piercing...
Yep, you guessed it! After twenty minutes in a shopping center, I had not only one, not two, but three separate bodily fluid stains from what I can only imagine was a bird racing home from work, but just couldn't quite make it. I mean, we've all pulled over to the side of the road at least once right?

At first I was disgusted, and then I was furious... which then led me to my next emotion.. curiosity. Is the world just testing me? Not once in the past two months had an animal left it's droppings on my car, but today, of all days, it happened. Why is that? Could it just be circumstantial? Or possibly the universe giving me the opportunity to show patience and forgiveness?

I came to the conclusion that maybe, we as humans, are not on this earth to just 'be'.
Maybe life is just a series of tests and mazes, and we are awarded points if we do well. They could even be like flybys or sky rewards points; once you have saved up enough, you can, so to speak 'cash them in' and use them to make that guy you been crushing on for months ask you out, or find a lost item you've been searching for for weeks.. but just randomly appears on your desk one day.

Am I crazy?    Quite possibly.
Am I a genius?     Probably not, but that doesn't mean I'm not on to something.

But, I guess the point to the story is that when I got home, I cleaned off the poop and now my car is shiny and clean again.

What. a. day.