Warning: Mid-life crisis whining ahead. My political alignment about social media is absolutely boomer-esque.
1. The crippling expectation of being available 24/7 aka digital availability.
My phone and social media are for my convenience, it’s not a leash, I’m not obligated to answer to you immediately when you message. I’m not going to check your social media story or answer your numerous messages. Even if I have checked a message, unless its an emergency, I will reply if and when I can.
2. Emotional pressure and anxiety to reply
I see this every day at work. The freshies at work are not just glued to their smart phones, it’s an augmented organ of their existence. Every time there’s a message they fret and fidget over reply and they HAVE to take some action. The concept of checking it later is an alien concept to them.
3. Not understanding personal boundaries and preferences.
I tell people I’m not on facebook, Instagram, tioktok etc and they look at me with shock and horror and so many people refuse to believe and wanted to check my phone. Like wtf. Just because you have a debilitating addiction to social media apps, doesn’t mean everyone else should be like you.
The worst one was HR at my previous work place upset that I didn’t have a social profile. Later I found out they spied on every one to make sure employees posted “company policy aligned” stuff on their personal social media. Like wtf.
4. Voice notes
Recently my company had to update the policy and literally go and tell some people at work that sending voice notes on work apps is not permitted and they should stick to written communication.
Some people at work had resorted toe exclusively replying in voice for everything and they demanded people send them voice notes instead of text. Like wtf.
I wish all communication apps had the feature to disable voice notes.
My cousin sends 2-3-minute-long voice notes for the most mundane crap and it takes him a minute or two talking really slow just to get to the point. I stopped listening to his crap and tell him to send me a text or not talk to me. He chose to not talk to me. Win win.
5 – Fake news and forwards.
My uncle sent a thousand messages a week to everyone in 2022 that Covid vaccines will kill everyone in 2 years and all his evidence was some photoshopped pictures of deformed humans and tiktok videos.
Around 2024 he changed it to “Covid vaccine is going to implant 5G tracker chips in everyone”.
I told him his phone is 5G and its already doing that; and that made him real angry with me. hehe.
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