My newsfeed is blowing up....
Okay, let’s get this down. Keeping in touch with old
friends, pretending to have a hundred new ones, sharing pretty pics and
fun stuff -it’s all good, I get it. I’m cool with it. I can even ignore
the unrequested insight on your bathroom interieur if I scroll down fast
enough.
But what has gotten hard to ignore recently are the new year’s
announcements. It all started the day after christmas (I guess because
it’s the season of looove and boys have warm jackets) and I fear that
it’s not over yet: every single day a new relationship status popped up
on my newsfeed! And it was devastating who paired up with whom- it
really makes you wonder what is wrong with this generation. (Oh, you
might want to know that the “drunk-people-making-out” from that party
have saved their honour by going all fb official. Congrats.)
Still, even though it was already somehow unnerving to read the freaking
hundreds of good luck comments, the worst was yet to come.
I swear, you have to yell at me if I ever, ever, in my whole life, post a
status on fb in which I tell my boyfriend that I am “lying awake
missing my boo luv ya sooo much weve been togehther for a month now luv
ya moaar every day baby you n me forevaaaa you my angel i luv ya more
then anything baby”-I got a message for ya, “boo”: GET A LIFE!! And get
off fb for God’s sake before I comment on that, ‘cause the day will come
when I will not only express my thoughts on your need to repeat the
basics of your mother language, but also how it is simply not okay to
harm your peer’s eyes with the abuse of the term “love”.
And before you even suppose so, I am certainly not so annoyed because
I’m jealous or something. You’re in love? Good for you! People are meant
to love each other. It’s in the bible.
But people aren’t meant to screw the thought of even looking for a
relationship up for the rest of the world by being all over-the-top
about it and making us wanna puke all over the rows of pink hearts. If
my boyfriend gave me not only a stupid nickname but ALSO made it visible via social media
to my uncle, brother, and senior crush, I’d kill him. Verbally. And I’d
doubt he’d stay my boyfriend for much longer. Don’t get me wrong, it’s
cute to want everyone to know you’re together, it’s just all about the
balance. Facebook can be evil. You have to think twice about every
single step you take, just so you’re safe. And personally, I think it
isn’t neccessary to be so damn obvious about your relationship. And
saying “I love you” in the same breath as liking a picture of a barely
dressed singer and a cat gif? Not so classy. I like to keep a certain
standard, thank you very much.
Oh, Side Note: a one-month lasting romance does not qualify for the
amount of “love you forever and evaaa”s that is going on right now. I
mean, what if you break up tomorrow? That’s not gonna be a little bit
embarrassing, is it? It’s just that everything you said will stay on the
internet forever….and evaaa….
Rosy Smith
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