"Why did you just do that?" || WE-114

I do not understand the people who live their lives on social media. I just do not get it. How do you feel comfortable letting a stranger know deep things about you?

Social media has definitely been a great tool for this time that we live in. The power of communication has never been at its peak. The way we can practically talk to the whole world in a matter of seconds is something that you would need to be the president of the U.S. to be able to do just that, had it been about 5 decades ago.

Social media will continue to remain a great, in fact, amazing tool that is invaluable to individuals and groups of people seeking to reach a wider range of audiences. But a powerful weapon in the wrong hands will only be the death of them, or other people.

I see people using social media in ways that make me cringe for them. They are careless about the information about them that they put out. They do not even think about how much they are risking their lives by giving out their information to the world to people that could potentially hurt them.

It basically means that the problem is that some people seek validation from other people. They do it so much that they can even take advice from strangers. They can even literally take advice from strangers. And this happens well on Twitter. It's ironic to seek advice from people who will troll you if you say anything they don't agree with. I just do not get it.

I am not the one to use social media in the way most people do. I just cannot. So whenever I see something that makes me cringe, I ask myself, "Why did you just do that?"

A friend of mine once asked why I did not post on my Whatsapp wall. Many of my friends know this about me, and some of them ask for my reasons. They know I am not much of an introvert, and it is not like I am a preacher of "privacy". But I just find it quite odd to tell just anybody anything about myself, let alone a stranger.

"So, I just bought an iPhone 15 pro max." Someone whose ancestry I am uninterested in. And I just wonder, for what purpose could this piece of information from a stranger be for?

Why do you need the world to know that you have just got something new, especially when it is not even necessary? I mean, I try to keep my life private because when I flaunt what I have, I only give the impression that I am swimming in comfort, which I do not need the world to know if it were to be so.

The matter of risking one's life is not even out of it. There are people that share everything about them, so much so that they even show their locations. And I, who have no relationship of any form with you, can tell so much about you just by going through your posts.

This is not to say that you cannot share things about yourself. Of course, in order for people to engage with you, they may need to know a little about your personality. I can also talk a little about my life and say things that I do. I would only be doing this because I want you to be able to think of me when you think of certain niches.

To be able to have you say, "We need a guitarist," I think I have seen Olujay share things about the guitar. He should either play the guitar or know people that do. " is one of the reasons I would share that part of my life with the world.

But I guess we just live in a world where many want to claim that they too are "woke". It is just sad that they misunderstand what being woke is. "Woke" most certainly isn't being gullible and careless with information about yourself.