The End of Social Media

Seems our big adventure in trying to communicate with each other is ending. Like the telephone to our previous generation, the Internet has brought us together into a complexion of opinions and biases.

It all started as such a grand experiment to connect us all together. Search for family and folks from work or maybe old school mates long forgotten. Might even find an old love interest?

So we find a meeting platform like a comfortable bar and start building profiles of whom we want to think we are for others to see. We use whatever catalog of snapshots or artistic renditions to show the world our image. Welcome.

We gather and start commenting on children’s photos or old memories or what we had to eat for dinner. Not withstanding space or time, we present ourselves in a few characters as if long lost values were interesting.

The fascination of communicating with an old friend or love or other drew us into this game of ‘social media’ it was free and easy. Then the addiction took over.

There was no way not to comment on another’s post. Your opinion mattered.

Unfortunately things got nasty. People posted what would not have been said face-to-face. Things just unraveled.

I’m still addicted.

I’ve disconnected bad behavior and rudeness, but still find this fiber connection worth paying for weather and news and even a marriage or baby or two.

Still this experiment of connection is worthy on continuing to view a YouTube replay of a football game or some interesting article to share with another, like radio and television, the end is in sight.

Escape back into your sheltered bubble and forget how to talk or share a thought or an idea or perhaps enjoy a conversation with one-another.