Discussion Narcissistic social media obsessed society is enough to want to ctb on it’s own

[Taylor]

First I should mention, don't get the wrong idea based off of my avatar photo, I know it seems like I would buy right into the societal "norm" these days of plastering myself all over Snapchat/Instagram, etc. but that's entirely not the case. It's literally the only decent picture I have, that I actually took the time to make look nice, and that behavior is the complete opposite of my character.

I absolutely cannot stand what society has become; this never ending superficial and narcissistic competition, in which people constantly compare "whose dick is bigger" over social media platforms, to the point where an individual bases their entire self worth off of how many "likes" they can get. It's absolutely ridiculous and appalling to me. I could never own an instagram account for longer than like two weeks because that's all it is. Fake, artificial bullshit. You can bet your bottom dollar that every idiot's personality on there is identical also.

I almost feel like God knows I'm too good and real of a person for a horribly conceited and judgemental society like today's, and all of the pain and suffering that has fueled my suicidal ideation and brought me here could be his way of saying, "Son it's time to come home now, you don't belong in this world anymore."

 

[crea_the_hopeless]

First I should mention, don't get the wrong idea based off of my avatar photo, I know it seems like I would buy right into the societal "norm" these days of plastering myself all over Snapchat/Instagram, etc. but that's entirely not the case. It's literally the only decent picture I have, that I actually took the time to make look nice, and that behavior is the complete opposite of my character.

I absolutely cannot stand what society has become; this never ending superficial and narcissistic competition, in which people constantly compare "whose dick is bigger" over social media platforms, to the point where an individual bases their entire self worth off of how many "likes" they can get. It's absolutely ridiculous and appalling to me. I could never own an instagram account for longer than like two weeks because that's all it is. Fake, artificial bullshit. You can bet your bottom dollar that every idiot's personality on there is identical also.

I almost feel like God knows I'm too good and real of a person for a horribly conceited and judgemental society like today's, and all of pain and suffering that has fueled my suicidal ideation and brought me here could be his way of saying, "Son it's time to come home now, you don't belong in this world anymore."

Social media is gonna be the death of us as a society. People are already very addicted. It's not good for our health. Reminds me of this Ted Talk by the "father of virtual reality," Jaron Lanier. He's a techie but he's very much so against social media in the way that it's affecting us.

 

[Taylored]

I agree with everything you said social media is such an issue for people's sanity.

 

[Taylor]

I agree with everything you said social media is such an issue for people's sanity.

Yes, and the PHONES dude, the fucking phones everywhere. Like just fuck off already, I hate it so much.
I'm clearly an old soul, who was probably much better suited for an era like the 50's.

 

[Weeping Garbage Can]

I completely understand; I had to deactivate my instagram account today (for like the 10th time) because of the hollowness I was feeling inside.

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

Yaaaaas!

 

[Taylor]

I completely understand; I had to deactivate my instagram account today (for like the 10th time) because of the hollowness I was feeling inside.

Hollowness is literally the perfect word to describe it. Nice!

 

[Weeping Garbage Can]

I'm glad all of us can relate on this :-)

 

[NoOneKnows]

yes , I agree. But why blame the tool, people can use the tool in a positive or negative way. Its just seem most people like to be superficial and show off what they got etc..

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

yes , I agree. But why blame the tool, people can use the tool in a positive or negative way. Its just seem most people like to be superficial and show off what they got etc..

Tools change mechanics and can make otherwise manageable problems grave.

 

[Roberto]

First I should mention, don't get the wrong idea based off of my avatar photo, I know it seems like I would buy right into the societal "norm" these days of plastering myself all over Snapchat/Instagram, etc. but that's entirely not the case. It's literally the only decent picture I have, that I actually took the time to make look nice, and that behavior is the complete opposite of my character.

I absolutely cannot stand what society has become; this never ending superficial and narcissistic competition, in which people constantly compare "whose dick is bigger" over social media platforms, to the point where an individual bases their entire self worth off of how many "likes" they can get. It's absolutely ridiculous and appalling to me. I could never own an instagram account for longer than like two weeks because that's all it is. Fake, artificial bullshit. You can bet your bottom dollar that every idiot's personality on there is identical also.

I almost feel like God knows I'm too good and real of a person for a horribly conceited and judgemental society like today's, and all of the pain and suffering that has fueled my suicidal ideation and brought me here could be his way of saying, "Son it's time to come home now, you don't belong in this world anymore."

There is always exceptional people that are out of this 'norms'. Not easy to find, may be.

 

[Taylor]

yes , I agree. But why blame the tool, people can use the tool in a positive or negative way. Its just seem most people like to be superficial and show off what they got etc..

You're right in that aspect, there are some real genuine people who use it in a completely nonchalant way, to just share memories of good times with friends, etc. That I get, and totally respect. That's the only reason I wanted to use social media platforms like IG. I just hate how in order to do so, you're mixed in with 90% of the other users I described above, and I don't like the idea of conforming to that, or to be mistaken as one of "them" lol.

 

[limelight]

Totally agree, deleted my IG two years ago. I'm a girl in my 20's and I can't stand how much people at my age live for "the gram". I cringe whenever my friends gets obsessed with taking the perfect selfies before we're going out or when they tell me to NOT TOUCH the food at restaurants because they need to put it on Insta-story first.

Wish I'd lived in the 90's where people were present and only cared about each other's opinion about things. How will the world be in 5 years? 10? 20?!?! I don't even want to know. Hopefully I wouldn't, planning to leave this world where my generations God is the Kardashian's.

 

[Taylor]

Totally agree, deleted my IG two years ago. I'm a girl in my 20's and I can't stand how much people at my age live for "the gram". I cringe whenever my friends gets obsessed with taking the perfect selfies before we're going out or when they tell me to NOT TOUCH the food at restaurants because they need to put it on Insta-story first.

Wish I'd lived in the 90's where people were present and only cared about each other's opinion about things. How will the world be in 5 years? 10? 20?!?! I don't even want to know. Hopefully I wouldn't, planning to leave this world where my generations God is the Kardashian's.

Hahaha, you're absolutely right. Like Kylie Jenner? Who gives a fuck?! Lol I certainly don't. How on earth is this person so important? She has the education and depth of a fourth grader.

 

[chrijo]

I totally agree with you. Social media reveals all of human ugliness. Narcissism and fakes everywhere, made possible by Photoshop.

The "Instagram-Beauties" are all ugly as fuck. I'm a man and I have nothing against imperfection :-)

 

[Xaphous]

I agree, and online dating apps seem no different. I've barely tried with them but browsing the same superficial bs there it seems. Every girl with 4layers of makeup and a dog nose and ear filter can fuck off. I closed permanently my fb account now, don't see any need to have one.

 

[EddieAllenPoe]

There is something unbelievably wrong with the fact you can see groups of people congregating in public... ALL STARING AT THEIR PHONES.
Now, I know that if we didn't have phones there would still be people staring at a book or newspaper. But that still doesn't convince me that social media is warping reality for a lot of people. I gave up Facebook a long time ago and switched to Sanctioned Suicide. It seemed like the logical choice.

 

[lululoo]

There is something unbelievably wrong with the fact you can see groups of people congregating in public... ALL STARING AT THEIR PHONES.
Now, I know that if we didn't have phones there would still be people staring at a book or newspaper. But that still doesn't convince me that social media is warping reality for a lot of people. I gave up Facebook a long time ago and switched to Sanctioned Suicide. It seemed like the logical choice.

I'll never get over the way people are with their phones in public. Staring it at as they walk. Every person on the train staring at one. This weekend I went out to eat and saw a family of four waiting for a table. The two boys, maybe 10 and 12 years old, each staring at their phones. So sad. When I was growing up, every moment that we were waiting on things, my brothers and I would be playing or talking or fighting. You know, human interaction.

 

[Nobodysfault]

I don't want to write a very long paragraph but i will say that the whole huge butts/no monogamy trends alone are enough to make me want to quit life. Everything is just too much, no values.

Also, Social media and google could be amazing if used right, google has so much free information to offer us (like history, math, philosophy etc.)yet people search for porn sites and beyonce's new song and use social media to sell the idea of who they want themselves to be -not who they really are.
these are only 2 of so many bad uses of the internet..

Btw its not social media anymore, it leaked into reality - its society now and we're fucked.
ugh, Ive got so much more to say.

 

[Ruffian]

Yes, and the PHONES dude, the fucking phones everywhere. Like just fuck off already, I hate it so much.
I'm clearly an old soul, who was probably much better suited for an era like the 50's.

I grew up in the 70s - early 80s. I liked cell phones, tablets, computers, etc. at first because my favorite aunt was a pioneer in the industry, which even today for a female is badass. She sold networks to businesses starting in like 1978, so we had the first video game (Pong and Bowling, hilariously simple) on a numeric keyboard that somehow hooked up to the TV) and the first "home computer" as they were first called. I mean, technology was so neat in that era - it was edgy. If you look at some of the shows that were popular, like "Charlie's Angels," the Bionic Man and Woman, Baretta, etc., they all had these primitive technologies in them. Car phones, metallic body parts, enhanced hearing and eyesight. James Bond movies were a little more far-fetched, but the idea was there. But the idea that people would someday be out IN PERSON with someone that you DROVE 1/2 HOUR to see would have their phone out and be carrying on a conversation with someone else who wasn't there quickly became infuriating to me. However, I am addicted to my computer, tablet, phone, etc. I tried switching back to reading books, but it's really hard. I really only have my boyfriend in this awful world, so I make it a rule that I don't take my phone out when we go out to eat. But at home, we work different schedules and if I'm alone it's very hard to put it down. I have so much to say but don't want to ramble. I think it's completely destroying the way we are supposed to interact when it comes to social media. I mean there's always been dick-sizing, but not to the degree there is today. When I was growing up women were prized if they had natural beauty that they kind of let flow with minimal tampering. Of course everyone in Hollywood gets plastic surgery after like 35, but there wasn't all the prepping for photos, and quite a few of us HATED getting their picture taken, portrait or just at a party or something. So to spend hours cultivating an image or brand of yourself would have been scoffed. I find it sickening and hate it. But then there's this site, which right now is the only place I feel safe to put my feelings down. I also never met anyone IRL who was diagnosed with the things I have, so it was good to discover other people had it. I even joke with young people about how they will never know the pain of having to wait for a song you like come on the radio. Damn, I could write a paper. I'm going to check out that TED talk. So you could just be a middle aged soul - you don't have to go back too far to get to a time when people still talked to each other face to face.

 

[AmbleNorth]

You don't have to participate in that culture. Just avoid social media and IG or use it sparingly. I'm not exposed to this sort of stuff so it doesn't bother me

 

[Taylor]

I grew up in the 70s - early 80s. I liked cell phones, tablets, computers, etc. at first because my favorite aunt was a pioneer in the industry, which even today for a female is badass. She sold networks to businesses starting in like 1978, so we had the first video game (Pong and Bowling, hilariously simple) on a numeric keyboard that somehow hooked up to the TV) and the first "home computer" as they were first called. I mean, technology was so neat in that era - it was edgy. If you look at some of the shows that were popular, like "Charlie's Angels," the Bionic Man and Woman, Baretta, etc., they all had these primitive technologies in them. Car phones, metallic body parts, enhanced hearing and eyesight. James Bond movies were a little more far-fetched, but the idea was there. But the idea that people would someday be out IN PERSON with someone that you DROVE 1/2 HOUR to see would have their phone out and be carrying on a conversation with someone else who wasn't there quickly became infuriating to me. However, I am addicted to my computer, tablet, phone, etc. I tried switching back to reading books, but it's really hard. I really only have my boyfriend in this awful world, so I make it a rule that I don't take my phone out when we go out to eat. But at home, we work different schedules and if I'm alone it's very hard to put it down. I have so much to say but don't want to ramble. I think it's completely destroying the way we are supposed to interact when it comes to social media. I mean there's always been dick-sizing, but not to the degree there is today. When I was growing up women were prized if they had natural beauty that they kind of let flow with minimal tampering. Of course everyone in Hollywood gets plastic surgery after like 35, but there wasn't all the prepping for photos, and quite a few of us HATED getting their picture taken, portrait or just at a party or something. So to spend hours cultivating an image or brand of yourself would have been scoffed. I find it sickening and hate it. But then there's this site, which right now is the only place I feel safe to put my feelings down. I also never met anyone IRL who was diagnosed with the things I have, so it was good to discover other people had it. I even joke with young people about how they will never know the pain of having to wait for a song you like come on the radio. Damn, I could write a paper. I'm going to check out that TED talk. So you could just be a middle aged soul - you don't have to go back too far to get to a time when people still talked to each other face to face.

Omg that absolutely infuriated me as well. I had this one girlfriend who would seriously sit and boast on her phone because of how many likes and all this attention she was getting from other guys, WHILE we were at the table, eating the dinner I took her out to. That's one thing I can't stand about the whole thing too as far as relationships go, like even if you're not necessarily trying to, to a degree you're still marketing yourself to the general public, and god forbid you're with a malicious woman who takes advantage of that and keeps a network of other potential guys at her disposal. I just can't stand how social media these days is basically designed for just that, practically inviting scandalous, unfaithful behavior with the "likes" and "DMs" and such. That's why I always chose to just avoid social media as a whole.

I don't want to write a very long paragraph but i will say that the whole huge butts/no monogamy trends alone are enough to make me want to quit life. Everything is just too much, no values.

It really is disgusting. And it's like it's so "normal" and accepted now that people are practically immune to it and see nothing wrong with it. Today you can't even find a girl between the ages of 18-35 (yet girls as young as 12 dress this way now, which is so sad) who doesn't wear shorts with half their ass hanging out of it or ridiculously low cut tops, because "every other girl dresses this way" and "it's cute"....like really? There's just no respect or class anymore, and I'm beyond over it.

 

[Ruffian]

Ugh. I honestly can't believe some of the outfits that I see at work.... I was in this club in high school that focused on business acumen and professionalism, proper dress, etc. I don't want to see cleavage or thighs when I'm at work. There actually used to be debates about whether KNEES were proper at the office - seriously that was as recent as the 2000s. I'm not in the corporate world, but if your clothes distract me, what effect are you having on middle to high school students? It grosses me out beyond belief to see anyone in a school like that. It actually makes me grateful I'm too old to have to worry about that shit any more.

And I can't imagine going on a date and having my phone out. You're supposed to be engaged in awkward or fun conversation while you wonder if you're going to end up in bed together basically the whole time.

 

[Jodes]

First I should mention, don't get the wrong idea based off of my avatar photo, I know it seems like I would buy right into the societal "norm" these days of plastering myself all over Snapchat/Instagram, etc. but that's entirely not the case. It's literally the only decent picture I have, that I actually took the time to make look nice, and that behavior is the complete opposite of my character.

I absolutely cannot stand what society has become; this never ending superficial and narcissistic competition, in which people constantly compare "whose dick is bigger" over social media platforms, to the point where an individual bases their entire self worth off of how many "likes" they can get. It's absolutely ridiculous and appalling to me. I could never own an instagram account for longer than like two weeks because that's all it is. Fake, artificial bullshit. You can bet your bottom dollar that every idiot's personality on there is identical also.

I almost feel like God knows I'm too good and real of a person for a horribly conceited and judgemental society like today's, and all of the pain and suffering that has fueled my suicidal ideation and brought me here could be his way of saying, "Son it's time to come home now, you don't belong in this world anymore."

I just joined a few social media things just to troll because I realised it's more fun just being myself. I'm still a bit ashamed that I still hide my identity on them - it feels like I'm partly giving in to becoming what I think has lead humanity to basically destroy itself.

 

[Ghastly]

First I should mention, don't get the wrong idea based off of my avatar photo, I know it seems like I would buy right into the societal "norm" these days of plastering myself all over Snapchat/Instagram, etc. but that's entirely not the case. It's literally the only decent picture I have, that I actually took the time to make look nice, and that behavior is the complete opposite of my character.

I absolutely cannot stand what society has become; this never ending superficial and narcissistic competition, in which people constantly compare "whose dick is bigger" over social media platforms, to the point where an individual bases their entire self worth off of how many "likes" they can get. It's absolutely ridiculous and appalling to me. I could never own an instagram account for longer than like two weeks because that's all it is. Fake, artificial bullshit. You can bet your bottom dollar that every idiot's personality on there is identical also.

I almost feel like God knows I'm too good and real of a person for a horribly conceited and judgemental society like today's, and all of the pain and suffering that has fueled my suicidal ideation and brought me here could be his way of saying, "Son it's time to come home now, you don't belong in this world anymore."

Dude. Saaaaame. It fucking sucks. But better than the abhorrent racism and sexism of years past? I like vaccines too they're helpful and air travel but the societal outlook is very grim.

 

[Emptiness]

I never liked social media and always stayed away of them. Too much narcisism and falsehood therein, with an abundance of people which, in order to compete with others for attention and acceptance, project a completely distorted image of themselves, which ultimately enslaves them into trying to pretend constantly what they aren't.

You have a point when you claim that one of the causes of the growing unhappiness in society may be due to that constant pressure to not be left behind in that gregarious competition.

 

[limelight]

Has anyone seen the Black Mirror episode callled "Nosedive"? I'm afraid that's where we are headed...

 

[chrijo]

Has anyone seen the Black Mirror episode callled "Nosedive"? I'm afraid that's where we are headed...

Yes, this episode has fucked up my mind. It's not so unrealistic anymore :D

 

[limelight]

Yes, this episode has fucked up my mind. It's not so unrealistic anymore :D

Yes, this episode has fucked up my mind. It's not so unrealistic anymore :D

True, and I will never put kids to a world like that in the future.

 

[Nobodysfault]

Dude. Saaaaame. It fucking sucks. But better than the abhorrent racism and sexism of years past? I like vaccines too they're helpful and air travel but the societal outlook is very grim.

Nope, its not better. not even close to being better. its different, not better. Racism and sexism are still out there hangin upside down instead of being cut off and if i go against society's opinion or if i accidentally say the wrong comment-the walk of shame/execution will be brodcast to you live on social media.

It really is disgusting. And it's like it's so "normal" and accepted now that people are practically immune to it and see nothing wrong with it. Today you can't even find a girl between the ages of 18-35 (yet girls as young as 12 dress this way now, which is so sad) who doesn't wear shorts with half their ass hanging out of it or ridiculously low cut tops, because "every other girl dresses this way" and "it's cute"....like really? There's just no respect or class anymore, and I'm beyond over it.

immune is the key word.
at the first time i got high i came up with the most accurate sentence "Drugs are the illegal way of technology"- just like drugs your body get used really fast to how much it takes to thrill you and you push your limits more and more with no notice and what once thrilled you seems so prude/nothing to you now. It applies to many aspects in technology,society approvals and life, but as i said i dont want to write too much (cause i have to much to say).