What’s with people?

Where is the common courtesy between friends and acquaintances? Where are the simple gestures that make each person at least slightly polite? Where have all the little things gone?

We have become crude and rude in the age of self-discovery. Every woman is a model, everyone is a professional photographer. I wonder how many people edit videos versus 10 years ago. It is this advent of social media that is causing an attitude change in people, I am sure. They are acting a certain way to create an attitude/personality around them. This act is fake, the post is fake and therefore their life is fake. With this now comes the idea of living up to the online persona they have created. 

Online vs Offline

Living up to the online persona they have created is a whole other matter. The attitude of not giving a shit, being a princess or a little bitch will continue.

Rudeness and hypocrisy will begin. A once-nice person will now need to live up to the image they are trying to maintain online. This goes for both men and women; don’t worry they are equally shit at this. Take a raper for example. They were raised on the streets or want us to believe they were. They are tough pistol carrying idiots on their posts and now they need to live up to that in real life. Swearing, complaining, and so forth is their image to gain followers. Be tough, be mean, eat or be eaten. This needs to play on cam and off cam. A once normal young man is now a womanizer and a smoker. All to be able to put on a show, a game, and claim to have an attitude.

Just Be Yourself.

With this attitude, a trickle-down effect comes to a new group of entitled young generation that is rude. Everyone wants to be an online influencer and star. Very few will make it, and most will be disappointed. A rude awakening will come when the looks fade and fame does not materialize.

At that point, the act and the game will be over and there will be nothing left but themselves. Which they have lost in the process of trying to be someone else. To me, this causes a rift in how people treat each other. In the end, this going to be a rude, crude society. People will end up being rude to each other. There will be a lack of communication that will lead to further deterioration in communication. This is all due to the simple, yet complicated issues of social media.