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❌Social Media-I Don't Need to Know that Much About Nobody

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Zuri
 Zuri
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 it's all so unnecessary. 

Piggy backing off this post: 🤣Me laughing at racists & starting the year off wrong – 🌻Healing in Progress – Healing & Halos Forum where I mentioned that I was on FB to get old posts off my business pages and transfer them here, but one thing I always end up doing is "let me go check on so and so page."

That's a habit that I've got to continue to break.

Pre-social media, I didn't need to know this much information about anyone, no matter how much I liked them. It wasn't possible to know anyone's every move, and that was a good thing.

If you were a fan of someone, there was some access to their latest work (music, interviews, shows), or tennis matches, or whatever sports they played. And then you watched or read their interviews about their work, and then we saw their nice, staged photos. That's it. 

Social media comes along 🤢 and makes it seem normal to be exposed to daily information from people. That is actually absurd. We don't need to know this much about each other. Like, do we live together? It's really crazy how we consume everything about other people. And what's the point?

Even if you like them, there's no need...speaking for me personally because this new journey is all about me, there's no need to know what they ate, how they feel, did they like a certain movie or song or meme or whatever...what clothes they are wearing, who they talked to while shopping, their vacations, relationships, house. There is absolutely no topic in the world that is off limits. Remember the phrase, TMI (too much information)?

Not these days...no such thing as TMI. People crave more and more and more of other people's business.

We know whenever someone is sick, we know their diagnoses, we know their surgeries and surgery dates, we know any complications...it's just, too much. We see it, the videos, the photos, the ambulance rides, I mean...what is happening here?

Then it gets even worse, we know who they lost/who passed away, or who is passing away...all this information just builds up to where it's impossible to sort through. But people, post an emoji and just scroll on, lol. That's the world we are in. 

But I don't care about the world we are in. All I care about is me and mine at this point, and just because the world is practically zombified at this point and people will "eat" or consume any information placed on their "feed" (Lol I'm doing way too much), anyway, point is, if it's on social media it's like a spell that people can't resist and people crave.

I just think, all this information that I've been absorbing from people (that I like) over the years and now I'm like, let me try and recreate certain things about my life pre-social media.

How does it impact my life if I read so and so views about XYZ? Yeah, I like the person and it's great that I'll agree with them, but does it really matter to my life? Does it matter if I know what TV shows they are watching? Seriously!
Cause let's face it, while I'm usually making sure I only go on people's pages that I like, the negativity and stress will be there somewhere and that all turns into more trauma for me.
Even if I did need to know about someone's life, social media isn't the place.

So this brings me to, real life friends, family and close family. Of course, it's important to know certain things about real life people in your life, but again 1)we never need to know as much as people post 2)social media isn't the place 3)if I can call, text, or visit them in person, then that's what I need to do

It's insanity & I'm so grateful to be on this journey of breaking free from the spell but it does take time. It's always been easy for me to see how damaging the negativity is on social, but now that I've healed tremendously from my various traumas I am able to see more clearly, the poison that is social media, even the so-called "positive" sides of social media are not positive at all

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Posted : 04/01/2025 8:29 pm
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