Facebook: Social Media or Soap Opera?

Social media. What was meant for good, like communicating with friends and family has now become a complete attention-seeker and competition. Some people feel the need to post their every action on Facebook. People go Facebook live for any and everything. Every action does not require a reaction, and, as the old saying goes, if you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all. Going online cussing each other out and I am a better woman than her or I am a better man than him. Come on ya’ll, really? Even if that is true, everything is not meant to be put on Facebook.

The posts that we need to be sharing are overlooked. So many positive videos that emerged online. A little boy saying grace over the food in his classroom; he could not have been more than 5. A man’s dying wish of getting baptized. A girl with spina bifida walking again. The list goes on. But what do we see posted? A woman with half her behind hanging out. An almost practically naked man. Now I am just going to get down to it. One big problem is racism. I am a black woman, and I am just going to be blunt. I have heard black lives matter so much its not even funny. All lives matter. People of different races are being killed every day or dying every day. Not everyone is the victim of police brutality or racial injustice. Some people are homicide victims, suicide victims or terminally ill people; age nor race play a factor.

Let us get serious ya’ll. Promote positivity. You do not have to put your marital/relationship issues on social media. Birthdays, engagements, weddings, and anniversaries are something to be celebrated and posted. When it comes to an attention-seeker, some people go live to tell you about something they want you to believe. Their main saying, "please share this video". Listen to the content of what is being said in the video. People have shared posts with me through Facebook messenger and some of them have been real and some have not.

What I usually do is google what the person in the video is saying because I want to, check the facts. Some of the stuff that is shared, 85% of it is a hoax. Once I find out that it is a hoax, I post it and put in the description that it is a hoax. People share things. People get scared. It happens. None of us are perfect. Do not believe everything you read. Do not believe every video you watch. Sometimes people do and say things for attention.

Presidency. That is one touchy subject. Should who is the better president, who was the best president, the current president or who we thought should president be all over social media right now? Leader after leader, the blame game is played. Some presidents that come into office automatically downplay the previous one.

We have had a few that get in the White House and begin to work on the issues that we have rather than blaming the issues on the previous leader. We go to the polls. We vote. A president is elected. We did our part. People have the misconception that their vote does not count and that they are going to choose who they want to. Whether the leader you voted for wins or loses, you voted, and it does count.

Anything we do in life counts. Social media is not bad, what makes it bad is what you do on there. As women, we need to respect ourselves. Put some real clothes on, not ones that show all your secrets as I call it. We have all done things we are not proud of. But all we can do is do better, myself included. Do not let Facebook ruin your life.