Thursday 26 June 2014

Has Social Media made us Socially awkward?

So you plan on meeting a friend at a coffee shop after a long time today. Are you worried about what you will wear? Nah! The following points are the main reason which is causing you to jump around in distress.

1. Which coffee shop do I met him at?
    a. Starbucks is too overrated, almost 10 of my friends checked in there in the past 1 week.
    b. Cafe Coffee Day?... erm.. Nah! Sounds cheap
    c. Let me look up a vintage old coffee shop... After half an hour of Googling... 'French Cafe' has been finalized.

2. Since I am meeting my friend after a long time. I shoud... No... I Must do a status update. After thinking and editing the post for an hour, a super senti post is all set to go live.

3. After posting the update, you take max 10 minutes to decide what you wear, the only time which you spend is in making sure your face looks fine ( Of course you have to click a Selfie)

4. So you are about to reach the coffee shop and you are getting all yaaay!! Happy types.. Not because you are meeting a friend, but mostly because you will check in a cool place after a long time >In you face Facebook and Foursqaure friend list<


5. After few hugs and kisses are exchanged you start talking about random stuff... After about 5 minutes, you feel as if an hour has gone by and you both are already out of ideas to talk about.

6. When we are bored and have nothing else to do... What do we do?...Take a Selfie (Selfie music playing in you're head and you're pouting like a super star!)

7. After about 5 selfies (if you are a guy) or about 250 selfies (If you are a girl), you decide to order some food.

8. Whaaat? Food you say? Well, we all know what that calls for... INSTAGRAM.. No matter how much you are starving, you've gotsa take a picture of your food and Instagram it. 
> In your face Instagram/ Facebook/ Twitter friends<

9. After a long day and exploiting almost every social medium, you say goodbye to your friend, only to come back home to write an even more sentimental status update about how fun it was to hang out with your friend after a long time.

Disgraceful, I say disgraceful.

Well, i'm no saint here, i follow the same steps, maybe a few more, when i go meet a friend.
What's wrong with us, why is it so easy to express ourselves on Facebook than on somebody's face. Why is it so easy to make small talks on Twitter than with people. 

Duh! Who cares, we are what we are and we should accept it. We are social addicts and we will always be. We might not be cool outside but we have a totally rocking social life on Facebook/Twitter/ Instagram and many more. :)

Cheers to all of us.


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