Spread The Better

Take a look at your social media feeds and see how often a meme makes a joke about cheating, sneaky links, hook ups, having a roster, onlyfans, and other less desirable behavior. I can’t go a single day without seeing something along the lines of, “changed my my side piece’s name to ‘Pizza Hut’ in my phone and now my girl is wondering why Pizza Hut is texting me.”

It’s these kinds of light hearted innocent jokes that may seem fun at first but they slowly work away at your moral compass over time. Back in the day the act of cheating was a sad and horrendous occurrence. Now through constant exposure pushed to our phones daily, it just seems par for the course when dating in the current year.

Through exposure, your mind normalizes otherwise tragic instances. Think of a soldier at war. His first few months in intense combat were most likely emotionally jarring due to the new occurrences he was witnessing first hand. Take that same soldier a year later and he is now jaded to the horrors of war, it’s just another “day at the office” for him now.

Apply this same principle to the content you’re consuming. When it comes to dating, the idea of meeting the right person seems ideal right? But wait, social media emphasizes “having a roster” and usually portrays it in an empowering way. Now that person you’re talking to on a dating app is empowered to string along multiple people due to the social society portraying that as “successful and empowering dating.” You’re now number 3 out of 5 in that person’s line up while you’re just hoping to find the love of your life.

This isn’t the way to have a fulfilling life. We shouldn’t be exposing ourselves daily to content that weakens the social fabric we are all a part of. Imagine if the larger majority of the content on your feed was positive, empowering, respectful, and honorable. Imagine if posts were talking about the positives of volunteering, animal conservation, the immense value of loyal relationships, etc. What would our society look like?

Remember how social media felt in the early days? You could post a picture on instagram of the energy drink you were drinking and no one thought anything of it. Now, every picture requires perfect curation, editing, provocative body language, and must follow the general guidelines of a ‘socially acceptable’ post in the modern day. You’d quite literally be considered “odd” for posting your breakfast sandwich these days, no matter how good it was.

I think it’s safe to say that we now live in two worlds, the internet has became the prominent reality while actual real life now takes a back seat. Posts of degeneracy, sex, cheating, drug use, etc are all now our new daily norm. Things that used to only be discussed in very private settings are broadcasted to the masses with the goal of hundreds of thousands of interactions and likes. What is this doing to our society?