Too Much is Too Much

Posted on by Sydney Golden

Theoretically social media is bringing us together. It just passed porn as the most popular activity online. It is an incredible, plus up to our daily lives, but I feel like sometimes it is too much.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Facebook connection, I’m on Instagram about 6 times a day (the average for my generation), and I ingest my news through twitter. Snapchat has become just as important as texting, and their “fire” feature plays right into my generation’s obsessive nature. Social media, much like amazon, is inventing problems and immediately solving them, creating demands where nothing was needed originally.

This is where I think social media has gone too far. With all of these additions, I feel as though it is interrupting my life and socially, and personal interactions with the people. My biggest pet peeve, is when people are glued to their phones around a dinner table. I was raised in a home with “no phones at the table” and where dinnertime was for family and conversation. I know the social phenomena of “looking at your phone to ignore an awkward situation,” but I think it just makes it worse.

I had the incredible opportunity of traveling to Greece while I was abroad. I can confidently say it was the best four days of my life. Prior to the trip, I was so fed up with the construction of reality that my friends and even I was portraying to everyone back home through social media, that I deleted all of my accounts for that week. I signed off, and while I was in Greece, it enhanced my experience that much more.

Social media is great. Fantastic even, but where it over steps is when it comes between physical, social interactions.

4 thoughts on “Too Much is Too Much”

  1. I completely agree with it. I think it has great purposes, but sometimes it’s too much and people need real face time instead of an iPhone “facetime.”

  2. I completely agree with all the arguments you made in your blog post — I wrote a very similar post concerned about how social media is now dominating your lives especially in our generation. Similar to how you deactivated your accounts for your trip to Greece, I recently went ahead and deleted my Instagram and Snapchat. It’s been weird so far — but feels strangely nice to not have to worry about ‘likes’ or ‘streaks’. Although I worry social media is taking over our lives, I do think that this is a social phenomenon that doesn’t have a near end.

  3. I enjoyed reading this post because of the personal anecdotes that you included to relate to the topic. It gave the post life. I agree with you that social media has gone too far. It can be too evasive and too much in general. However, I believe it is the direction research study will go.

  4. I like that you added in data (i.e. most popular activity, average visits to Instagram). I think that helps to make both you and the argument much more credible. I really like your personal anecdote about how you deleted your accounts and how that impacted your experience abroad. I think you could have expanded upon that with more details to enhance your argument. Overall, both your research and your examples make for a strong opinion piece, so good job!

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