Facebook Status Update
How does putting up your emotions on a social media make you feel better?
I am genuinely asking. I feel that way, and given how many people do actually put it there, I think it's safe to say I am not alone.
I mean...
Let's take me for example.
I think I have about 370 friends on Facebook, of which let's say about half of them are daily active. (Hard to believe?) So, of 185 people who might read my status, about 120 will just scroll by without a second glance (because they don't know me enough to care for me enough to spare the time) or luckily few might spend a second to mock it (like I sometimes do). 65 remain, 50% of whom, despite knowing me and reading the status, will feel like its none of their business (like I often do). 50% of those that remain might put a like on it and 20 % of whomever are left might comment asking, "how are you?" "what happened?" and stuff like that and forget about it all-together (or just remember about it while gossiping next time - no offense). Luckily, around 5 people will mail me, call me and follow up on me, and I will probably not elaborate on how I feel to any of them at that time. I will probably disclose the matter little by little, one person at a time to those close to me (that group of people do not change based on who read and who commented and who asked) and that's what I do anyway. No thank you Facebook.
Given past experience, I will probably delete my status between 5 minutes to 3 hours.
And I still believe putting up your emotions on social media makes you feel better.
How?
Can someone explain,
I am genuinely asking. I feel that way, and given how many people do actually put it there, I think it's safe to say I am not alone.
I mean...
Let's take me for example.
I think I have about 370 friends on Facebook, of which let's say about half of them are daily active. (Hard to believe?) So, of 185 people who might read my status, about 120 will just scroll by without a second glance (because they don't know me enough to care for me enough to spare the time) or luckily few might spend a second to mock it (like I sometimes do). 65 remain, 50% of whom, despite knowing me and reading the status, will feel like its none of their business (like I often do). 50% of those that remain might put a like on it and 20 % of whomever are left might comment asking, "how are you?" "what happened?" and stuff like that and forget about it all-together (or just remember about it while gossiping next time - no offense). Luckily, around 5 people will mail me, call me and follow up on me, and I will probably not elaborate on how I feel to any of them at that time. I will probably disclose the matter little by little, one person at a time to those close to me (that group of people do not change based on who read and who commented and who asked) and that's what I do anyway. No thank you Facebook.
Given past experience, I will probably delete my status between 5 minutes to 3 hours.
And I still believe putting up your emotions on social media makes you feel better.
How?
Can someone explain,
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