Does Social Media Control You?

A lot has been said about social media. But is your relationship with it healthy?

I remember the first time I ever logged onto Facebook. I was pretty young. I might have been thirteen or fourteen. And it was a new world for me. It was an identity thing. A place to make about you. It wasn’t about family back then. It wasn’t about politics. It wasn’t even about memes. It was about you. You and me.

I’m one of this younger generation that grew up on social media. If I didn’t have time restrictions turned on on my Facebook timeline, you would probably be able to see all the way back to the very start of it all. As it is, I have pictures from the middle of high school on my Facebook –because those pictures are what my life was about when they were posted. I’m sure a lot of you can relate.

But the funny thing is, I’ve grown lukewarm to the platform. And the reason I don’t like it isn’t because of anything said in the news. I’m sure the things you hear about in the news are all valid reasons to dislike the platform. But regardless of what Zuckerberg did or didn’t do with my information, my dislike of Facebook didn’t start with him.

What really turned me off to Facebook went beyond how political it became. And not just in regards to actual politics. That stuff’s pretty…