My Annoyance With Facebook and My Revival With Twitter

I consider myself a late bloomer with social media. It wasn’t until the last year of high school when I started using Facebook to connect with others. Everything with Facebook was going okay when I first started using it, but as the years went on, I became annoyed with Facebook, more specifically, the constant complaining and the depression that was displayed by my Facebook friends.

At the beginning of this year, I wanted a change in social media, so I began to use Twitter. I was tired of having to hear the whining from my Facebook friends on my news feed, so I wanted to connect with new, happier individuals. Making the switch from Facebook to Twitter was the right decision for me, as I am able to follow and talk to those who have the same interests as me. Also, a lot of people on Twitter seemed to be much happier and cheerful than my Facebook friends, as I see it, and they are more comfortable with expressing themselves in a more positive way than those of Facebook. Others might see it differently, but this is just my opinion. I got a lot of stick from most of my university friends for switching to Twitter, but I’m sticking with it.

I am convinced now that Facebook is a hotbed for the insecure and those lacking in self-esteem. The vast majority of my Facebook friends are people that like shallow relationships and are concerned about how many friends they have on Facebook (because of the unspoken, and grossly untrue rule that the more friends you have on Facebook, the more popular you are). It’s quite depressing to go on my Facebook and see such things like someone bitching about how they broke a nail or lost some meaningless material thing and acting like it’s the end of the world, or seeing your typical girl talk those slutty-style pictures of themselves or her friends in front of a bathroom mirror. I am aware that this sometimes happens on Twitter too, but you see hundreds more on Facebook. Honestly, I can only laugh at these people.

There was an instance on Facebook last year where I would say around 75% of my Facebook friends changed their profile pictures to an image of a childhood TV show that they used to watch, in order to “stop child abuse”. I cannot believe the stupidity and idiocy of the people who changed their profile pictures for this. If you want to make an effort to stop child abuse, maybe you should actually go outside and physically do something about it. Sometimes, I think Facebook encourages you to be a retard.

I actually pondered deleting my Facebook account, but I have distant cousins who my only link with them is with Facebook, so I can’t do that. Twitter is now the main social media site I use now, and I’m going to stop using Facebook completely. Everybody has their own cup of tea. Well, I just vomited the tea from the Facebook cup and now drinking from the Twitter cup for years to come.