It's Break Time

I have come to a time where I feel I am going to scream within from social media obsessions. The social media sites we love (to hate) of Twitter and Facebook have consumed my time creating major distractions to things I once loved to do including reading, writing, socializing, interacting, watching tv and movies. I have become so addicted to the sites posting my every thought, sharing links, comments, status updating literally every second of the waking day that I have come to a point where I must put down the laptop, close the sites or turn off the iPhone where I spend 90% of my day since being out of work.

It has to stop, it has to completely stop, and learn that do my tweets even mean anything to anyone else? Do my Facebook status updates really matter to the reader? Are the people who follow you or your FB friends really care about you, yes some of them do, but it's like a popularity contest on Facebook anymore, people add hundreds and thousands of "friends" and why? Is this high school all over again? I believe it is. I had recently deleted over 400 people from Facebook to only keep the people that actually interact with me. I am not going to delete Facebook, nor Twitter, but I must slow down and go back to enjoying non-electronic induced fun again. I know that society now has the biggest A.D.D. ever with these sites, I have my phone in my hand more than anything all day, from posting tweets, updating FB, playing mobile games, texting, using GPS, googling something, it's just crazy. So, I had a breaking moment today where I said I need to slow down, but wont delete them (yet)

Being off work for the last four months it got really bad, because when I work, I work, come home, cook, watch tv and go to bed, but since I am literally addicted now, I need to start backing off NOW before returning to work so that I dont use it at work, and get caught, putting myself at losing my job because I had to see who tweeted? Really!?

Am I being a bitch? Am I an asshole? No, I am just venting because I am worried about the future of our society as we have become so disconnected from each other. People rarely call other people, we all text each other, or tweet and Facebook. Now, going out with friends here in town, to a restaurant or a bar, everyone has their phone out non stop, how can humans enjoy company as we once did if all we are doing is being rude to each other by being on the phone ignoring those friends that we love and have spent so long trying to build friendships. Can't we put our phones down for a couple hours and enjoy each other for a change? Can you try it with your friends? I was a bar on the dancefloor recently and majority of the people dancing all had their phones out checking their latest Grindr application (a gay GPS based profile app to locate gays in the area that normally want to hook up) - I mean REALLY, can't we just dance and enjoy the music, well I know I am from now on.

Even watching tv now has # (hashtags) now such as Glee last night with #Glee on the television, meaning for you to go to twitter and follow the show via the #Glee hashtag on Twitter. For those who know me, I have always been a movie fanatic, but the last six months or so, I always have my phone out or laptop out and miss most of the show, and have lost interest in movie watching unless I am at a movie where I dont take my phone out at all.

I am frustrated with the quality of life I have succumbed too, the addiction to knowing everything, posting everything, this also stems from my previous addiction to the online dating sites and gay sites that I used to obsess over trying to get that little attention from anyone possible I could get any from. Being that I am not quite the typical homosexual, those sites do NOTHING for me and I am not satisfied from the staring at those sites day in day out because I am not stooping to nor changing who I am to be that low of a person to hook up with strangers for meaningless sex. For those of who you who love the sites like grindr, Adam for Adam, gay.com, bear411 and all those sites, go for it, it's what you enjoy - but I am also just stating my opinion that there is so much out there than sitting behind a keyboard, laptop, mobile device on those people who really amount to nothing. Just broken promises, broken attempts and failure on their end. Majority of them post pics of their torso leaving nothing to the imagination, oh yeah once you get that one night stand from them, they vanish. Simply, a waste of time.

Any take aways from this for the reader, if anyone does, not really, just my opinion of the social media craze out there and my open acceptance of my addiction to it and where it has ruined my life and I must reclaim my life and get back in touch with me without sharing it all with other people.

Thanks for reading...agree? disagree? leave a comment...

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