socmed overload

Since the internet has been invented, it came
with all the advantages, the good stuffs, and the fun.

And also the bad influence like porn, game addiction,
hackers, violation of copyrights...

hold up -- I don't need to list all the bad stuffs, right? 

I know it sounds like a cliche.
We know about it so well, coz we've heard it over and over again,
perhaps from our own mom and dad who we'd wished they'd just shut up,
or from articles we'd just turn over in the newspaper,
or from our thoughts that we'd simply ignore.

Sadly, most people are still oblivious to the damage the internet has done to us. No no no. Actually, the internet isn't to blame!
Are you kidding me? Internet is very useful and helpful, it's fucking awesome;

It's just that the users are not, ironically.

People who get so hooked on the internet tend to procrastinate a lot. And without the internet, they feel half of their life taken from them coz they don't know what else to do. Stupid spoilt children....and stupid parents who raise them by giving them gadgets as toys.
We get sleep-deprivation, bcoz the net keeps us up with its endless offer of surfing. The extreme extent some extreme internet users develop then, and is time-consuming and LIFE-consuming, is:
1. Porn addiction
2. Online game addiction

"Oh whew, luckily I'm not like one of them!"
You can say that. That you're clean, a non-addicted internet user.
Yeah? Think twice.

maybe we should add one more:
3. Social media addiction

Yes...that has been disturbing me a lot. It's not that I dislike social media.
But people are getting more crazy about socmed that it has become disturbing.

How? The number of socmeds they've joined!
Here in Indonesia, or Jakarta specifically, lots of people use:

facebook twitter Instagram

path ask.fm youtube blogspot

foursquare +Google Pinterest tumblr

you can read this article from vulcanpost.com about "Social Media Craze in Indonesia".

I have some of them too, you know:
twitter, facebook, this blog, pinterest, & google plus
but perhaps most active at twitter & pinterest because I gotta admit that those two have interesting concepts.

Lately, it seems like everybody's trying to get me to join path & instagram, or ask.fm. -__- it bugs me. Because I don't get the point. I've got 5 socmed accounts already, I don't want to waste more time updating 3 more ughh. Nih yaaa,
Gw dari twitter & fb bisa upload foto sekaligus caption, ga perlu plus instagram lagi.
Kalo mau cerita+foto, lah ini uda ada blogspot, ga perlu path lagi.
Path/instagram posts annoys me. There are some users who have the need to update it everyday.

#Hashtag #Overuse

Instagram hashtags gets me on my nerves when I see them in facebook photo uploads.
#selfie #friends #me #pretty #fun #me #beautiful #smile #bighug
..... lama-lama buta ngliat begituan tiap hari
#I #dont #give #a #shit

Selfie Generation

not to mention the annoying habit of some instagram users, who have thousands selfie of themselves. You want people to admire you so much, princess? When someone stalks you, you'll be like "He's such a freak. Why should this happen to me??" when it's actually your fault for putting your pretty face all over the media, attention whore. Sorry for the inappropriate language, I just don't really get the #selfie generation.
It's okay when you have selfies below 20% of the all the photos you take. But when it's 50% or more....then you are a narcist.

Foodpornnnnn

Or another type of insta users...the one who photos their meals. Everytime.
One of them even got mad at me when I took a spoon of my own food, just because he wants it untouched for the sake of his instagram uploads.
I said, "Then take it now, I only took a spoon. What is the big deal?"
He yelled, "It's ruined now! Because of you! Siapa yang mau foto makanan udah kemakan??"
And that is, ladies & gentlemen, my brother.

Ask.fm : The "kepo" site

ask.fm is another bizarre thing. More like "kurang kerjaan"
(literally translates to "having nothing to do", a.k.a no point whatsoever)
"kepo" itself means busybody, but you can kind of say it's like stalking too.
Lagian pertanyaannya ga pentingggg dan gaje.

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What I'm saying is....enough with this bullshits people.
Why are you so into "I have to be in every social media!" ?
It's wasting so much time, not to mention with having all 11 socmed accounts I mention above.

Watch this video, I got it from 9gag.tv




Before watching this video, I also read this article "This is why young Singaporeans think their lives suck"
Quoting some of the lines I remember til now

Sadly, no one ever shares what really goes on in their lives. Why would they? They show-off their best moments and hide the ugly realities. Its not longer about sharing your life, but showing a filtered like inducing version of it. We crave validation from the number of likes our status updates or instagram pictures get.

The nature of social media allows for immediate and excessive comparison on so many more levels than ever before.  We don't realise it but we also in turn measure ourselves up to this skewed version of the lives that our friends project. And this very often leads to one thing - depression.

That is so true...

Anyways, that's it. I'm merely expressing my uncensored thoughts about socmed overload. Apologies if anyone feels offended in any way.