Things you hate about social media

Social media

[quote] What do you hate about social media?

The people.

When people you know and like post selfies making strange fake smiles they never make in real life, so you know they’re insecure/vain. It’s just too much exposure to someone else’s issues and gives me secondhand embarrassment.

"Bet you won't repost this!"

"I challenge 10 people to repost this."

"If you've read down this far, show me by reposting this."

R1: are you me? Sorry. Pretty much despise SM.

Commoditization of statuses

Brigading

bots influencing trend subjects

wasting time

the pains of learning how shallow and effete the representatives our family voted for are, how vain, shrill, and reactionary people I thought were my friends are

privacy and other personal settings being changed or removed

brainless algorithms devised by USans that cannot justifiably apply to worldwide users

I never imagined I would live in a world, where I have to hear the opinions of strangers, on a daily basis.

Endless baby pictures every fucking day! No one wants a daily pictorial of your crotch fruit. In the old days you would keep one pic at your desk or maybe your wallet. Why do breeder think we to see your carbon copy every day? I think out of all the insta whores, parents are the worst of the worst with their new born rug rats.

Not being able to call everyone a fucking cunt on Twitter without being continually banned.

I told this old bitch that she was dumb as a stump, and that I was sorry she was dumb as a stump.

Poof...banned. Lightweight!

Oh...and don’t forget the endless daily bible verses.

🙄

Marjorie Taylor Greene types

I don't have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TickTok, nothing. The Datalounge is my "social media" and sometimes I go days or weeks at a time without looking at it.

I don't understand anyone's constant obsession with social media and I think it's stupid.

The echo chamber mentality.

What does “Brigading” mean?

Social media!

HISSSSSSSSS!

When a whole gang conspires to massively downvote on someone's post, I think, r14.

and talk about a time-suck (and not the good/pleasurable kind...)

Thanks R16. I fucking hate that, too.

Might be the most annoying thing about Reddit.

Things I hate about social media:

• hearing about “no nut November” as if it’s a good idea or that anyone is actually refraining from masturbating for a whole month… just shut the fuck up

• guys who shave their pubes down to nothing for their r/MassiveCocks and r/ThickDick pics

• the stupid fucking posts on the “Today I Learned” subReddit, which are always about some fucking celebrity and never particularly interesting (those are the ones that get the most upvotes)

• the catchphrases that every young person latches onto and runs into the ground

• “Lets gooooooo”

R9 Twitter is the worst. They ban you for anything under the sun yet straight up play porn. Go figure.

Private accounts

When hot guys have a Linktree in their Instagram bio but there's no Onlyfans link included.

I hate how social media drives perfectly fine-looking people to ruin their faces with bad plastic surgery and fillers/botx. Of course most of those procedures existed before social media, but 'getting work done' has really become normalized in the last 5 years or so, and I think it's mostly due to the unrealistic and sometimes downright freakish beauty standards promoted by influencers. For some young people, looking really fake and plastic even seens to have become a status symbol. And it's not just women/girls, lots of (gay) men follow that disturbing trend, too.

People who hide their friends on facebook

“Get in mah belly” on a food pic always angers me.

R23 when the numbers are really low?

"[word]. That's it. That's the tweet."

People whose Twitter profile picture is an anime character and they have no pictures of themselves on their profile. If I take time out of my day to read someone's insane bullshit opinion I want to see whose it is.

Is Data lounge considered social media?

R28, antisocial media.

R25 Not necessarily. A lot of people who do this get dozens or even hundreds of reactions to all of their posts, so they must have a lot of friends. And they often share really personal things, so it really doesn't make sense to me.

Bragging about how great your frau life is, especially thanks to Jesus. Just because you think Jesus gives you a luxurious life doesn’t mean you spread that bs all over Facebook. Also, documenting your family growing up through social media. I recently heard my whore grandmother song happy birthday to my bastard children cousins. That old bitch has never told me happy birthday in my life. Thanks grandma!

Since human beings have existed, they have had lots of thoughts and opinions. Most of the time, they either kept their opinions to themselves or shared with a very limited number of people. This went a long way towards people getting along as a society....we didn't have to know every thought that popped into peoples heads. Now people have global platforms where they can spout off every thing that enters their mind, with no regard to how it might impact others. Then thousands or millions of people feel a compulsive need to disagree and disparage and spew their own useless opinions in response. And soon it is all a blathering ball of shit swirling around 24/7 for all to see.

This is why society is a fucked up mess. If people went back to sharing their opinions only with people they actually know IRL, the world would be a much better place. Even then, the old rules of never discussing religion or politics at social gatherings is a good idea that we should go back to.

^^ and NEVER MIND that I posted that opinion on a discussion board, you cunts!

I really only follow Instagram, as I like the photography and arts-related posts and follow photographers and art historians as well as friends.

I am never impressed by the simple fact of anyone's vacation (although I appreciate the landscape photos that can come with it).

I hate the "my feet at a beach" shot. Fortunately it doesn't seem to crop up among the people I link to.

"Curated" picnics, etc., set my teeth on edge. "Fur-babies" also makes me retch.

Friends too busy to get together or call their parents, but posting nonsense all day, and virtue signaling online when they’re privately really self-interested. Also humble brags.

Cat junkies EVERY FUCKING WHERE and the Wokeism-fed teens with blue hair, talking about gender theory, non-binary persons, with 91436589089 pronouns; I hate them

"I did a thing" 🙄 followed by a haircut/new tattoo, etc...

R19 yet straight up play porn... And I add Pedo and terrorist accounts.

Jack Dorsey is really WEIRD.

The amount of people under the age of 21 with tons of life experience who are going to "coach" you so that you may reach your full potential.

R36 Cats rules, you fucker.

"(insert name/thing) That's it. That's the post."

So fucking obnoxious.

Oh a cat junkie who pisses off everyone on social medias R40

R42 I don't have social media. I just know that cats rule and you drool.

R37: urgh yes! That and ‘so… this just happened’ FUCK. OFF!

Great idea for a fun hate post OP!

I really only use Instagram, and I make it a rule to only have people on there I actually like.

My account is private, you don’t get “accepted” to follow me if I don’t like you. Following me doesn’t mean I will follow you.

None of my friends are fraus, they are not religious or at least never post about it, and they share pics of interesting experiences like travels of life milestones.

Sadly, I can’t really open Instagram in public transport due to all the scantily clad guys that I follow. My timeline is a parade of thighs and asses…

People who have 3000 'friends' hmmm, I run a mile.

I want to live my life, not record it.

People who participate in sharing propaganda. And not just one or two posts, 10-20 shares of the dumbest, most obviously made up stories attached to photos that are clearly photoshopped.

A close second - pressure posts. "My true friends will share this..." Yes, let some bot that produced a 500 word post about the need to honor veterans/boys in blue/victims of cancer by posting this in your status for one hour define the meaning of true friendship for you.

[quote]I really only follow Instagram, as I like the photography and arts-related posts and follow photographers and art historians as well as friends.

Very much the same as R34.

I genuinely like Instagram but for me it's a rich visual resource. I'm not interested in social media for sharing personal information and observations with friends and acquaintances.

I follow artists, curators (the museum sort), art dealers, architects, art historians, archaeologists, some booksellers, antiquarians, some travel and city photographers, map dealers, and friends (in my case they turn their cameras outwards and only occasionally inwards.)

I don't care about following celebrities. Or men with beautiful bodies who spend the other half of their day (when not at the gym) mugging for the camera? Or people who travel only to take close up selfies (Is that really the Taj Mahal? I don't see any marble.) I get enough politics from the news that I don't need random opinions on politics, or much of anything unless you happen to be an expert in, say, 16thC Italian portraiture. I don't want to see vidoes of "cool hacks" or unboxings or crazy car crashes of fat people falling down. I won't be interested if you got a haircut, or about your favorite canned soups of childhood, or about school memories, or a slightly amusing thing that happened, or whether you've ever broken a bone, or opinions posted as some kind of dare.

Instagram is a form of social media, of course. But it's so image-centric that it takes a different turn, and you can define your interests and get an interesting set of results and an occasional freind pops up, "oh, there's John back in Morocco." The rest of social media isn't really a good fit for me, I just can't sustain interest in shared memes and asserting one's individuality by opinions on below he nose mask wearers.

People.

Formerly down-to-earth people (who you know in real life - definitely no bots) who suddenly post flimsily concealed ads, like "WOW my new Samsung Smartwatch is just fantastic! I can't believe how accurate it tracks .... " followed by a generic text you know was written by a PR department. Firstly: I wonder if they get offered a discount for sharing this on their profile, and secondly: I'm absolutely sure it's not worth the instant loss of respect other people have for them that's the result of such posts. Other than that, my profile is not quite this much of a bubble as other people's, I guess, as I rarely unfriend people (only if they threaten people with death or shit like that. The last I unfriended was a vegan who proclaimed that all killers of animals should be killed. (Ironically, she was also a fan of a certain Attila Hildman who is a vegan cook, a former darling of press and TV because, as an adopted child from the middle east, he was also a major success story. Recently he has gone full Q-Anon and has become so openly antisemitic that the NSDAP would have probably asked him to tone it down. (He is also currently not in Germany anymore to escape an arrest warrant for sedition.) Alas, I didn't stay long enough to witness the vegan socially conscious super mommy's disenchantment with HIldmann.) Oh well, it's probably stuff like that why I am still on Facebook – to some degree, I enjoy the drama without participating in it. Facebook has become a freak show as the views get more and more extreme.

Twitter - when I follow someone for their politics and interesting links who suddenly starts posting "aren't-I-pretty? selfies". & one guy who I thought was interesting, posted a photo of his fucking parking ticket! I wrote " you post photos of your parking tickets?" he wrote back "Yes...what's your point?"

R51 that usually means their account was hacked.

[quote] I hate how social media drives perfectly fine-looking people to ruin their faces with bad plastic surgery and fillers/botx.

It’s an epidemic. Genuinely beautiful women with lips like Bratz dolls and 10 pounds of make up. They look alien and cartoonish but they and all their fans are blind to the distortion. That’s common now. It’s hideous.

The high-school mentality it engenders and fosters.

The influence and impact of reaching out to thousands/millions of people...in lies and misinformation politically, in such a way that puts democracy in great danger. The loons used to stand on a street corner...and most people would walk by. I hate this platform and its influence.

Social media is the reason we have the Kardashians, Travis Scott, and the rest of our degenerate culture. It keeps the kids dumb. Well, and most adults, too.

Crossfit loons. They post non-stop about "WOD's" and "burpees" and other stupid crossfit related shit NON STOP.

People who got sucked into MLM pyramid schemes and are always trying to recruit others. They post all kinds of bogus shit bragging about how they're their own boss and they're rolling in dough because of it. It's all fake. They're probably about to go bankrupt and lose their houses.

The other day I was reminded of a really creepy guy I knew back in the 1990s on Usenet, and how he kept friending me on all the social media as it arrived, AOL then LiveJournal then Twitter, etc. I had to block him and he blocked me in return. This all ended in about 2007 or so.

I hadn't thought about him until last month when I got a message from an old friend of mine, someone who knew me in real life, who said this guy tried to friend THEM earlier this year. He had told them they had me as a mutual friend. It's been 14 years!

In short, what I hate about social media is how it always seems to benefit bad actors or the mentally ill.

I’m not involved in any social media. The ONLY socializing I do on the internet is datalounge.

When you have to find your underwear in the big pile.

[quote]Things you hate about social media

The "social" and "media" parts.

Some of you are too delicate for human existence itself.

I hate the dickheads who write "wait until the end" about a clip (usually involving a baby or pet) and nothing happens

R51 in the case I am referring to: sadly not.

The way fraus exploit their young kids for likes on Instagram. There's a special breed of Hollywood ones who post things that border on really inappropriate. And then the ghouls who reply with "the coolest!" "The best!"

always seems to benefit bad actors or the mentally ill.

what do you mean?

Too many things to name, about 99.5 percent of it.

Old grumpy people ruined Facebook.

Nouveau riche hags who think it’s cute to boast of their purchases via unboxing videos or “curated” placement in photos. A few examples:

A woman I know posted a photo of her kid on Halloween on a hay bale but had arranged the shot so that her Manolo Blahnik shoes were next to her daughter dressed as Cinderella.

Another woman I know is trying to be an Instagram book expert, starting a book club via her page. That’s fine and dandy but you lose credibility when you pose your latest Hermes handbag purchases in each and every post.

A third woman is a triple loser: an endless barrage of pictures of her brats, her lunch and of course, her luxury handbags in every shot. (think: “Here’s my salad from XYZ Restaurant!” but in the corner oh-so-carefully placed is her Chanel bag.) Same frau is building her “dream house” and posts constant updates on it and asks her “friends” for their opinion (“Comment in the space below!”) on EVERY damn thing about said house as a way to show off. Should I pick this expensive stone or that expensive stone? Should I put two bedrooms in the guest house or one bedroom and a library? Do I get this $2000 faucet or that $3000 faucet? Who gives a flying fuck, you neurotic cunt?!

Makes me hurl, all of it.

I cannot tell if my former friends were just narcissists playing to an audience of one before going on social media

or if the people in my social circles thought "at last! Now I can forward memes and spout hateful nonsense and propaganda I couldn't do at family get-togethers or in the office", or if maybe they are now conditioned by dopamine addiction to be posting echo-chamber nonsense for attention, approval, or brainwashed.

People who suddenly think they're you're best friends because you liked one of their posts. They're usually the same ones who'll send you a private message asking for pictures of you naked the next day.

I'm not a big fan of the sad sack posts either where someone seems close to suicide 3 times a week. We know you're not serious anymore. Stop fishing for attention. You're just gonna get the same old "it'll get better" comments. How are those helping?

The saddest ones are the guys well past their primes who continue taking proactive selfies in their beds as if they're posing for Playgirl. It seems so pathetically thirsty. I'm not sure how I even ended up following this one guy, but he seemed normal at first until I started seeing shots of him almost totally naked in his bed with his legs behind his head, trying to show off his hole and sucking on his floppy man tits. And then he'd have the gall to complain when his account was suspended or his photo got deleted. What did you think was going to happen? This isn't Grindr.

And don't get me started on the guys who only post selfies and nothing else. You get followed or friended by an attractive guy and then scroll through their feed and all you see are pictures of themselves. No friends, no family, no pets, no funny memes, witty musings, etc. just pictures of themselves. Boring! No matter how pretty you are, you better be bringing something else to the table.

When you strike up a conversation with a hot guy and they go offline just when things are about to get interesting.

There are definitely different frau styles on Instagram. One I’ve noticed is the sensitive book lover type, always posting literary quotes, meaningful books they’re reading, lots of #gratitude. It’s fine, I don’t mean to put them down, but it is a type.

People who post photos of their dying relatives hand, usually with the IV pic line clearly shown. I mean, WTF? I actually saw them so this with a dogs paw.

[quote]I hate it when people post photos of objects (food, clothes, whatever) and address them as if they were people. “Hello, fried chicken sandwich. You sure were delicious.”

Wow, you must hate the 0.0005% of social media posts that conform to this extremely specific pet peeve.

Cool thread, bro.

Endless notices about missing dogs

I hate cryptic, please ask me what's wrong posts or the someone unnamed did me wrong posts. If you can't say something, shut the fuck up.

When people constantly complain about the same person over and over on there. Either cut them out of your life or shut up.

Is DL social media? Because I am not on FB, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok or any other social media, so it only bothers me in the sense that so many of you are obsesses with it.

I work my fingers to the fucking bone to ensure that the DL is anti-social media.

And you poor bastards fuel the fire.

Everything.

I think social media lowers IQ.

Sad picture of a droopy-eyed dog, followed by:

“ .. bet I won’t even get one like .. “

UGH!

People and their fucking food pics. Period. Especially some GLOP they just made. Also: EMO posts obviously directed at someone in particular but vague about specifics. Makes whoever posted it look like a titty‐baby douchebag!

Couples creating the illusion they’re happy.

Being gay and having been with a lot of bisexual men, I’ve been very discreet with my relationships.

So I don’t come from the world of exploiting your significant other and relationship on social media.

And I find it transparent and obnoxious and self-absorbed.

R75 I see that a lot! Imagine how weird it is to take a photo of that. Is the person asleep or high on morphine when they do it? Do they ask permission? It takes a lot of effort to take a photo with one hand holding someone else’s hand so there must be some retakes going on, which makes it sick imo.

Also, and this is on Facebook, the most fucked up people you know posting inspirational or philosophical memes or advice memes. I know a girl who posts that shit everyday and yet she never takes the advice. Like she sure reads a lot of this shit but always ends up in the same stupid situations she posts memes that talk about understanding them or how to avoid them.

Also, self-deprecating memes. Memes that glamorize or are humorous about depression and self-loathing. People sure like to tell the world how much they enjoy hating themselves today, just as much as they posting self-absorbed shit about how much they love themselves.

[quote]I hate cryptic, please ask me what's wrong posts or the someone unnamed did me wrong posts. If you can't say something, shut the fuck up.

Vaguebooking!

"Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed, because someone close to you will disappoint you (again)."

"Keep your fingers crossed for me! Can't say why yet but it could be major!"

"People really need to keep their mouths shut about things they know nothing about. Yes, I'm referring to a certain person, and no, if you're reading this, it's not you."

"I've just cleaned up my friends list. So if you see this, you made the cut!" Well, I wish I didn't.

R80 I don't consider DL or any anonymous online forums as social media. What I hate about sm is that it's less about the message and more about the messenger....on DL and any other anonymous forum, it's the exact opposite. Which is kindo of what I love about it. I know some people think that anonymous just means more trolls, but honestly, I just feel it makes it more honest. If you are able to distinguish the trolls from the real people anyway, and it's really not that hard.

Unspoken prayer requests.

Sorry, but I need to know what I'm praying for here. Do you need a new kidney or are you wanting us to pray for you to get back with that ex-boyfriend who used to beat you.

R91.

Duplicity.

One sister was a massive, fetid cunt with our mother. In our mother's last weeks, sis came across on FB as the world's most self-sacrificing, wonderful daughter. It took a lot of restraint to keep from responding w. some reality.

A former colleague is quick to post about his marvelous wife, delightful son, their house, terrific upbringing thanks to great parents... "My life's lovely la la la..." and just as quick to whine about petty shit like no more free bags in grocery stores, poor people not working hard enough for him.

[quote] People who post photos of their dying relatives hand, usually with the IV pic line clearly shown. I mean, WTF?

This is so jarring to see! It should be private.

The performative nature of it all. Everything staged and posed, every act or whim documented, photo filters to the max. Trolling for likes and RTs, 24/7.

Exhausting, shallow narcissists.

EVERYTHING. ESPECIALLY, the fakeness.

I wonder if my MySpace page is still out there?

The virtual signaling and culture of outrage

SO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IS______(insert gross misinterpretation)?????

When people talk about sex 24/7

All of Tik Tok and IG are people dancing. Haven’t we had enough of people dancing? Can everyone stop dancing???!

All the humble bragging, look at me, I'm having so much fun selfies. I got a haircut! I ate a sandwich! I read a book! I folded a sheet! I put up a shelf! Look at me!!!

Andy Warhol used to document his every move, but he was an important artist and his friends were interesting. He knew that everyone wanted their 15 minutes of fame, but this has become obnoxious. It's just a bunch of boring people trying to convince everyone that they are better than everyone else.

Oh, I wanted to add, I hate the people who dress up their pets in little outfits and pose them in human like situations and live vicariously through the likes and attention that they get. I really see it as a form of animal abuse.

[quote]All of Tik Tok and IG are people dancing.

The fuck it is, at least not IG (I have no experience with TikTok.)

You find what you seek. If you search Google for dogs who wake themselves up with their own farts, guess what you'll find.

Saying that IG is nothing but idiots dancing suggests you've been searching for or clicking on idiot things.

^^^ ugh, you don’t watch random reels? You can watch tik tok and IG reels without clicking on anything, boomer.

[quote]The performative nature of it all. Everything staged and posed, every act or whim documented, photo filters to the max. Trolling for likes and RTs, 24/7

I used to love trawling through YouTube to see what others were doing, finding interesting videos and such. What you say here is what YouTube is also like these days, I actually can't be bothered watching a lot of it when it's so sanitised and samey-samey. It no longer seems like people are genuinely putting out funny or interesting or bizarre videos for the sake of that, but are doing it solely so people look at them (and even give them money for it).

I think I got burnt out when I lived in Sydney and met some of these types who were all over their social media: "Black Lives Matter!" It Gets Better!" etc etc, and in real life were just nasty cunts who didn't care about anyone else at all. Now I can't watch a video of someone or see a statement made my someone without feeling very cynical about it.

The Social Experiment covers this, but due to the algorithms, it basically becomes an echo chamber of what you upvote/like. So if you like bad things, fake news, conspiracy theories, etc., you will sink deeper and deeper into that rabbit hole. Also if your life is a bucket of couch crusading and wokeism from your computer, bumper stickers, or house signs, you will get that ad nauseam.

It's also isolating: almost everyone is "curating" their "online personality" so they edit their posts/pictures to project who they think they are, or want to be, vs. how they are in real life. People feel emboldened to say things they would not utter to friends, acquaintances and certainly not strangers because "Hey, I'm out here in the cloud and it doesn't matter. Right? RIGHT?"

It's supposed to bring people together but I would say unless you are very real on your social media (which is bound to get your some comments/deletions from one camp or other) - it doesn't.

Memes or captions in a so-called "dog voice." As in, "me's not durty, me don't need a baf...whad me do?" Ugh. Almost as annoying are people trying to type how Melania sounds (luckily slowly dying it seems at DL).

If you accidentally click an ad on Facebook while scrolling, it will serve you ads for the same thing until the end of time.

I am not interested in "beard wash," "beard oil," or beard dye. Really I'm not, Facebook.

R108 I agree and I find it terribly disturbing. "pawrents.." "chimken.."

I always unfollow when people start dressing up their dogs. Let them be. It's nice to see people enjoying time with their pets, but don't abuse them for your desperate thirst for [italic|likes[/italic]

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I dare you to repost:

I LOVE KITTENS AND PUPPIES AMERICA GOD THE POLICE AND I'M NOT A PEDO!

People who use their personal accounts to sell their wares and by bombarding you with their posts that are just professional ads—real estate agents, personal trainers, etc Almost no one wants to see houses for sale in their personal news feed. Create a separate business page. You’re just a being a spammer by doing that.

People who go from big time addicts or partiers to addiction specialists/counselors/life coaches/trainers/spiritual leaders on social media ten minutes after they get sober/skinny/enlightened. Somehow a social media platform turns you into an instant expert or guru where you qualified to start charging to help others. So sick of “life coaches” whose biggest qualification being is 30 with fading good looks and charm in IG posts.

People wishing dead people "Happy Birthday!"

"Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe!!!" etc...

One thing that annoys me a bit is seeing these big pronouncements on things like: "we are all responsible". I don't like people speaking for everyone and, to quote Eddy from Ab Fab: "Labelling us all with this global guilt". An example is a video I just saw promoted on YouTube about the Britney Spears saga:

"We all did this to Britney".

I don't know why it irritates me so much, I guess it almost has this religious aspect to it like: "we should all be guilty, we all have original sin, etc." if that makes sense.

[quote] I don't like people speaking for everyone

On DL they're called "we" trolls. They're the worst people on DL.

We most certainly do not know to whom you refer.

[quote]ugh, you don’t watch random reels? You can watch tik tok and IG reels without clicking on anything, boomer.

No, R105, I don't. No more than I buy things from promotional posts because, well, there they were.

TikTok is meant for idiots and nothing more than that. If you were looking for quality entertainment, you were in the wrong fucking place on Tik Tok— once again. But if you get only unolicited reels of people dancing on IG, it's fucking because you've been watching them or not scrolling past fast enough, or because you've established a pattern pof interest in like things.

I'm only on Instagram, which I enjoy as a primarily visual medium. I follow lots of painters and galleries, and then a handful of friends and family. Within the latter group, each individual has a unique posting style and persona, whether they mean to present one or not. It's kind of fascinating. There are different types: drama-queen virture-signaler, sensitive literary woman, self-deprecating (but really vain) humblebragger. I most appreciate those who are straightforward, like my old-lady cousin who posts pictures of cakes she bakes for sale. I also don't mind if someone with a great life (money, family, accomplishment) flaunts it openly; at least they're being honest about their good fortune, and sharing the fun. And those who document everyday beauty are my favorites. The two relatives who make me cringe most are the "blessed" bro who gushes about "my amazing wife" and the 50ish gal who posts endless, ENDLESS selfies, at least two a day, usually captioned with something pointless like "Mood."

People I know in real life who post tributes to their parents, going on and on about how great they were. I dislike this, because these same people have told me, in private, how abusive their parent was. So, which is the lie? What you told me, or what you said on Facebook?

I get that, R120.

Sometimes I play a little game in my mind: what would the real, honest caption to this photo be?

"I think my face looks good right now, and I want you to tell me you agree."

"I have money. Look at this awesome view I bought."

"I'm sensitive and artistic, and see beauty where average people like you do not."

"Look at my ass!"

My sister is classic frau on FB—non stop photos of her children—daily. I love my nephews, but it’s too much. The key is to unfollow everyone and visit the pages of friends when you are curious how they are doing. It takes work to keep social media from being invasive, because it’s designed to be just that.

R122 Nothing against your sister, I'm guessing her account is private, but I will never understand how in general mothers can expose their children to the entire world and all its psychos.

R123 agreed — she was pissed because some frau friend reported one of those kids in the bathtub photos to FB. I told her she had to be careful with posting photos of the kids online, because there all kind of freaks out there—plus it can get you in trouble, regardless of how innocuous the photo or intent may be.

Learning how rich everyone is. New cars, exotic vacations, fine dining all the time, expensive home renovations, and on and on. And happy, always happy and with a large network of attractive, fun-loving friends. The ones my age with kids are now sending them to expensive private colleges while they plan early retirement still in their 50s. All this on just better than average salaries too. I never realized what a disappointment my life has been, how poor my money management skills apparently are, and how little I have achieved since I started up on Facebook.

The phrase - SOCIAL MEDIA

Trolls.

We all did this to R15.

Apologize, we cunts.

This is specific, but Stan accounts, particularly the ones on gay singers/actors/artists, these accounts are run by straight women, who seem to be homophobic. They'll overemphasize every beard relationship that gay singer/actor has ever been in, so they can pass him off as straight or bisexual, and completely ignore the fact that they're gay. For example Freddie Mercury, an obsessive stan insists that his "real love" was Mary Austin and all his other lovers weren't real. She'll only post about Mary and Freddie and write what a "cute couple" there were.... Really this kind of stuff usually warrants nothing more than a sufficient eyeroll from me, but I have made the mistake of responded to one of these idiotic accounts; they acted all offended and blocked me lol.

I don't hate anything about SM. do you have any idea how lonely some people would be without it? Makes me wonder what it was like for people all alone before the internet.

Could it be monitored better? yes. but it's a great platform. Who knew there were so many dumb people in the world? you can learn lots of new things. If in question, you can do research to make sure what you read is true. It is all a matter of knowing how to handle it.

People who like (or any other reaction) their own posts.

1) duck lips

2) men giving makeup tutorials (on themselves)

3) posting videos in MIRROR MODE!!!

4) duck lips

“Xxx” who Dis? posts.

R131, I know! That is the height of narcissism, or maybe just insecurity.

R129 funny you should mention that — over the years, I have interacted with a couple of loons who adore Freddie, “love the gays”, but will insist high and low that he was at the very least bisexual, if not completely straight.

The man was “as gay as a daffodil” - to use his own, autobiographical words.

What's weird is, the duck lips have been around for what, 15 years now? And they're still not going away. The internet has frozen style in its tracks, hence everything has looked the same since the late 1990s.

Destructive people - destructive just for the sake of it. For the fun of it. You have it on dl ALL THE TIME NOW. Someone starts a thread and in they swoop trying to disable the thread, accusing the OP of all sorts, insulting the site he's linked to, insulting the posters...the usual boring insults...Boris, Trumpster...they've dumbed down Datalounge...and put good people off from starting threads and posting. I guess this gives them some sort of evil satisfaction.

[quote]What's weird is, the duck lips have been around for what, 15 years now?

Do the men they're trying to impress find it appealing?

[quote]I don't hate anything about SM. do you have any idea how lonely some people would be without it? Makes me wonder what it was like for people all alone before the internet.

This is so...dystopian to me. Before the internet we talked face to face or by telephone. SM is so artificial and contrived, it's scary to think some people rely on it exclusively for their social needs.

Like, get out and join a club or something. Go volunteer somewhere, and interact with people who have much less than you. Pick up a hobby or learn a new skill. Start a book club. Don't use social media to replace a normal social life.

Roxane Gay

The amount of free shit people get for being whores.

People who pose with their tongues sticking out. Vile and low class. Just disgusting behavior.

R125 smoke and mirrors

I hate how all of a sudden everybody became “my beautiful sister/brother” my “beautiful friend”- granted they could have been meaning inner beauty- but what a disappointment it is to read a build up like that and then see a picture of some average, homely looking person.

[quote]It’s an epidemic. Genuinely beautiful women with lips like Bratz dolls and 10 pounds of make up. They look alien and cartoonish but they and all their fans are blind to the distortion. That’s common now. It’s hideous.

God only knows how history will see us.

R108, yes, those posts are so stupid. If my dog could talk, it would be in perfect English, not that baby-ghetto-speak.

Gloppy-looking food/baking pictures. We get it: you fucking made something. Yeah --- a gross-looking, unappetizing mess. Keep that shit to yourself.

It’s very segregated. “Black twitter”, etc. sad.

R147, awhile back people were collecting pics of Roxane Gay's cooking and it looked exactly how you described. I couldn't stop laughing.

The moronic Llenie/zee affection:

“Nobody:

Not a soul:

Not a person in the entire world:

[insert an unfunny nobody-asked punchline here]”

Social Media

The Instagram Ho’s

The false sense of entitlement based on how many friends and likes. Like I give a flying fuck about you, your spouse, your shiny kids, or anything about you.

Duck lips.

All the horrendous looking celebrities who are addicted to terrible looking plastic surgery.

The political correctness that is imposed on everyone. You don't have the right to think differently from the dominant thought. They know everything better and yet, these Progressives have destroyed everything. If you dare to think differently they ban you. Just like the Communists. They are making me hate the fact that I have voted for left all my life. What the left has become is absolutely detestable. I will never vote again in my life.

The Sensitivity of everyone.

Fat, ugly, or old people who undoubtedly have many fine qualities but physical beauty is not among them, who post selfies and all their friends respond by saying how gorgeous they are. Do they really believe this?

Food that is brown, unless pic is taken by a pro.

R149 have you ever admitted to yourself that you’re obsessed with that person?

Not sure how you justify your behavior but it’s really sickening. It’s abnormal but you don’t seem to get that. Have you had thoughts of harming this person? Seek help before someone gets hurt.

Whatever you’re planning it’s not worth it.

R158. Exactly! I think to myself, "Am I looking at the same picture as everyone else?"

Those long, flowery, dramatic tributes people post on special occasions. "To my amazing wife, you are the light of my life, I love you to the moon and back," etc. etc. etc.

Hear hear r156

The killjoy nature that is in so much of social media these days. No one seems to be able to just have fun and joke around, instead there's a lot of outrage and strange, nonsensical accusations made of others for whatever people THINK others opinions are. Everyone else is viewed suspiciously and a lot of disingenuous arguments are made.

See R160 as an example of this type of attitude.

I hate it when I find a recipe and I have to spend an hour trying to find the damn recipe because they have to spend so much time yapping about this or that… I came to get the recipe, not to find out about your whole fucking heritage.

R165 I learned that's because you can't copyright recipes, but you can copyright articles in which they appear. Something like that.

[quote]The political correctness that is imposed on everyone. You don't have the right to think differently from the dominant thought. They know everything better and yet, these Progressives have destroyed everything. If you dare to think differently they ban you. Just like the Communists. They are making me hate the fact that I have voted for left all my life. What the left has become is absolutely detestable. I will never vote again in my life.

Funny, because MY particular social media hate is self-described liberals who say they HATE what "the Left" has become, are never going to vote Left again, and blame it on the Left.

The jesus freaks that put the bible verse name and number i.e. Philippians 4:13 on their instagram bios .

R168 Same with the people who tout their vaccination status in their bio, or post pictures of themselves getting the shot. I’m vaxxed but please.

The non-exclusivity of it.

How it turns even the most cool interesting people into annoying bores.

I hate all the self-important assholes on reddit who try and start flame wars with you if they disagree with your comments just to feel better about themselves for a minute or two. I hate the bullying, dogpile mentality of the thumbs up and down system. I hate how people can't tolerate any opinion but their own and how childish and immature it is. The abusive people should be outright banned, but often aren't.

I miss having no idea what other people thought about politics. There really was such a time. In fact, I'm pretty sure most people didn't even think about politics all that much.

Twitter

That is so true, R172. You can't even go into a subreddit of something as innocuous as r/languagelearning without coming across some kind of bullying hierarchy. It's ridiculous.

Yes, yes, yes to R173.

Even years ago, they were saying that a third of young people had been cyber-bullied and were deeply hurt by it. It's probably even more now. When I read that, I thanked my lucky stars that social media didn't exist when I was younger. I'm sure I'd have been doomed.

I don’t even know who Roxanne gay is but somebody on DL is obsessed to the point of stalking them. Jamming them into every thread. And then making up something so it fits into the thread, no matter how completely off topic. That is a sign that someone is really in your head. When you can’t eat, sleep or think without bringing them up constantly.

R178 In that vein, making everything about Trump. A thread about draining pasta will inevitably elicit "I bet DUMP drains his pasta!"

Roxane Gay needs a makeover. She needs something lighter, something softer around the edges.

But overall, she's a solid dame.

The 40-50 something folks c o n s t a n t l y on twitter esp those in academia, are exhausting.

Seriously, when do they actually work?

[quote]I don’t even know who Roxanne gay is but somebody on DL is obsessed to the point of stalking them. Jamming them into every thread. And then making up something so it fits into the thread, no matter how completely off topic. That is a sign that someone is really in your head. When you can’t eat, sleep or think without bringing them up constantly.

I actually think it's comments like this that are what I dislike about social media. You see people like this, determined to misunderstand and misrepresent others, to be killjoys, to take offense at other people enjoying themselves. This is common on somewhere like Twitter. It's ridiculous. Plenty of people here enjoy a giggle at Roxane's behaviour, but I doubt anyone is stalking her (many people have said as frustrating as she is, they also feel fondly towards her). She's just unintentionally amusing, and people enjoy a laugh. Why not? The world needs more laughter.

I've personally always found it funny the way, on this site, people will make a statement and sign it by someone well known. It's one of the things that made me want to stick around. Others may disagree, which is fine, but why try and destroy the fun for others? It's weird and says a lot about the person doing it.