Friend - 3am Conversations - Social Media

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Look, I agree with you. I agree with everything you're saying. Now, that's not the issue though.

That's not the issue. The issue is, and it's what I've been trying to get at, okay? So please listen to me.

I am NOT attacking people of this generation. I am NOT. All I'm saying is my opinion and what I think might be the problem, alright? Everything revolves around social media.

Everything nowadays. Your phone is your lifeline. Literally, you cannot exist on this planet without a phone.

That's what it's come to, okay? And yes, change is a good thing and whatever and advancement in technology, blah blah blah, alright? However, all I'm trying to point out are the bad things, the unhealthy things that come from this dependency because it is not that we're like, well yeah, dependency, codependency, right?

Because you need to depend on your phone and your phone depends on you. Like if the phone was a living thing, that's how we treat it though. We treat it like a living thing, like a lifeline because our lives are on the phone.

Holy shit, I just came up with that. But it makes complete sense. Think about it.

You post more about your life than you do live it, okay? Everybody is so obsessed with making sure that they look the part, that they look okay, that they look great, that they look like they're having a good time living, that they look whatever. Like it's just all about social media.

Social media is a screen, it's a phone, it's a thing, it's a material, it's not real, it has no life. But we treat it with so much adoration. It's insane to me, okay? It's insane.

And I feel like it is so unhealthy. Like look at all the standards, right? Look at all the standards.

We have standards for beauty that are all proposed and held up by the online presence. Meaning you have people who pose, take pictures, post them, and we say this is beauty, this is beauty, this is whatever, this is that, this is a good lifestyle, this is not a good lifestyle. It's all based on pictures.

It's not based on the actual living and emotions. Do you get where I'm going with this? Because I'm going deep right now, okay? And I know that I've had a few fucking ciders and a few fucking whiskey sours, but I swear I am okay.

I am just speaking from right here. We are living, right? Giving complete power over what the internet and what people post about holds up to the standard of what should be your livelihood, what should be your life, okay?

You have to look like this, you have to go to the gym, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to have this car, you have to have this job, you have to have graduated, you have to have all this shit, you have to have followers, you have to have a presence online, you have to be somebody. That is the problem. Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to be happy.

They think they are, they go together, and that's where the problem begins. That's where the problem lies, okay? And then this is where it really goes, this is where we really get into it right now.

It impacts even higher because you get used to being on forums, you get used to being in the comment sections, you get used to saying whatever you want, right? On comments, on wherever it is, right? Just behind the keyboard, just clicking and whatever and swiping and liking and doing all this shit.

But when you got to talk to people in real life, that's a skill that's going bye-bye. I'm sorry. You have all these people that have anxiety.

Anxiety from what? I could, I'm sorry, like, hey, yeah, call me a jackass. I know, right? Okay, fine.

I'm the bad guy right now. But it's the truth. It's the truth.

Anxiety from what? What have you gone through that is so horrible? Nothing.

I'm, and obviously here I'm making a huge exception for people who actually have gone through shit. And by the way, don't come with that bullshit of like, don't measure the suffering. It's not right.

Everybody who suffers, suffers. Yes, that's, I'm saying that's completely fine. What I'm saying is you should be able to fucking go into a store, say hello to the clerk.

Hi, how you doing? And buy something, okay? When you need help to do that, there's a huge problem.

And when it's everybody, there's a really big problem, okay? When you have everybody being same, like they can't fucking go into a store and order something to go and go out, like they get anxiety from just talking to another fucking human being. I think, call me a huge theorist, a conspiracy theorist, but I really think it has to be with how much we're on the fake shit, how much we're on this little phone because the phone won't talk back to you, won't yell at you, right?

That's why you have anxiety because you're afraid that someone's going to yell at you or some shit. Nobody cares. Do you get what I'm saying? I feel like I've gone on a ramble like way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too far away.

But I'm serious right now. I'm telling you, I think this is a huge problem. Kids are not having skills from talking to one another.

Like just communication. That's what I'm worried about. You have people who have anxiety and the anxiety.

I get it. Hey, it's okay. If you get anxiety for going to the mall, if it's okay, if you get anxiety for being in a place with a lot of people, I get that.

It's fine. But when you have everybody's self-diagnosing, oh, I have anxiety because I don't, I can't call a pizza order. Okay.

There's a big problem going on. All right. There's a big problem.

It's when the majority of people are feeling the same symptoms, when they're feeling the same thing, when they're self-diagnosing the same way, you have a big problem on your hands. It's not just something that's like, ah, this is normal. No, no, no.

It's bad. It's bad. All I want is for communication to not be stopped.

I want to be able to talk to people. I want to be able to go up to someone and say, hey, how are you doing? How's your day going? You look great.

I love your hair or whatever. And for them not to be anxious about it. That's all.

Or we're all just lying pieces of shit that keeps saying that we have anxiety because we want to feel in the loop. You get what I'm saying, right? Maybe everybody is lying to one another.

We're all just caught in a big lie, lying to each other. Ah, same. And you don't feel any type of fucking anxiety.

You actually go into places and you're fine. Hey, I don't fucking know. I just know the internet is fake, man.

I trust nothing that is on the internet. I barely trust people in real life. So why would I trust something that's completely fake? Yeah, whatever.

I just wish. I don't know what I wish. Hey, how about another drink, though? I want to get fucking hammered tonight after this conversation.

What do you think? You want another one? You want another one? You want another one? Okay, cool.

I'll make them. I'll be right back.