Social Media and Old Age :)

There is a strange thing going on these days well strange to my old eyes anyway.

It is the appropriating of any generic whiny poor little misunderstood betrayed suffering me and making it your own as if it was your creation and your WHOLE life story.

One reads something and says oh yeah that is so ME and shares it right away when and where if one started to think and analyse for a second one could see it is a generic saying a bit like a horoscope and does not identify one's whole life story.

maybe it's a millennial thing. I totally fail to get millennials it must be a sign of the ages.

Nothing new under the sun.

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
 Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years Lyrics 

Every generation
Blames the one before
OR THE ONE AFTER!

It just seems to make it hard to figure out one's personality when the only Simulacra and Simulation 
(to quote Baudrillart here)
is a bunch of lame glued together memes.

Not sure what the future of Social Medias will be.
I am afraid that Charlie Brooker might be our own contemporary prophet of Doom 
in his canonical Black Mirror.

Speaking of Black Mirror and Millennials I was horrified by this recently.

It's the same thing on the train though. Everyone completely absorbed by their black mirror. 

Mine is usually in my pocket or in my bag LOL attached to my earbuds to block out the rest of the noisy world anyway, for the few who are not glued to their black mirror.

I find Facebook more and more depressing and from a discussion I had just this week with my doctor I am not the only one apparently.  

I stay off Twitter and am way too old for Instamatic anyway.

Another good example was this Fox app or some other TV app advertisement and this rich spoiled little girl who was totally bored and absolutely rude to her boyfriend because she had seen everything on the bus here and there and did not shy away from showing her boredom

( reminds me of that fake millennial ad on Subway Chicken too lol yawning at boring chicken)

My own adolescence was absolutely troubled and messed up don't get me wrong.

I went from hash, to mescaline, to acid, to cranking meth,  back to mescaline by the tea spoon in no time and I ended up in a detox centre and homeless by the time I was 20 

but STILL I am quite thankful (even though I had no choice in the matter) that I am not a teenager in this day and age. (even though today's teenagers would hardly qualify as millennials I suppose)

Anyway here is my old fart new rant for today.

Ciao for now

Death will be the Great Equaliser!