Social Media

Social Media

Social media is similar to family – it can at times be really wonderful and fill your bucket with happiness,  or it can be a total jerk and simply waste your precious time with moronic jokes,  pointless bragging and endless embarrassing photos. 

Hopefully my family is not reading this. Billions of dollars were wiped off the value of Facebook when it announced the global number of active users has fallen for the first time in its 18-year-history.  Aussies are spending less time on Facey and much, much more time on TikTok.  The latter is not just a delicious biscuit I do enjoy with a cup of English Breakfast but also the fastest growing form of social media on the planet. 

They say we need to keep young with an open mind and embrace new technology.  They also say update your handbag and sunglasses yearly to look modern but that is for discussion in a different column.  Well, I say, you can rack off Tik Tok. I cannot cope with more social media than I already have, with Facebook, Messenger, You Tube, Instagram (my addiction of choice), emails and texts I have more platforms that Grand Central Station. 

My dance card is full thank you very much! A recent study showed the average time per month Australian users spent on Facebook fell 3 per cent last year.  TikTok saw a 40 per cent jump.  And here is the really sobering part: the average time spent on social media is almost two hours per day, which is up 11 minutes.  Two hours.  I mean I always whinge I do not have time to get to the movies or have a coffee with friends or read.  Yet I do have time to sit on my silly phone and be sucked down that vortex of brainlessness. 

I will try harder this week to put the phone away and be more present in the now.  I blame a new page I have discovered on Facebook that is all about chipmunks that visit a home made minituate café in the backyard of an American woman who clearly had a bit of time on her hands during covid.  It is a total trainwreck.  Cringey and tacky.  And I love it.  The sets include little chipmunks having picnics and resting in petite baths.  It is called ‘Rosie’s Café’ and it will rock your world.   

You’re welcome.  But just look quickly okay as we need to cut those two hours a day way down that is rotting our brains!