Thoughts

Sometimes I get super annoyed at social media.  I can't stand reading about how perfect people's lives are (and I know they aren't, social media is just the best of everything).  But can we please stop using it to brag or make ourselves out to be something we aren't?  Or turn ourselves into victims?  Or make cryptic posts just so people will wonder about you?  If you need attention, just say it.  Don't be cryptic and weird.

Some people think that they are so much better than others, and put on this front that I think is extremely fake.  And compound it on social media with how great they are, and how fantastic of a parent they are.  Oh, and how great their kid is.  I get being proud mom, but do we really need to post every time they are sick, or every time they do something you think is extraordinary but really is something every kid does?  Victimize yourself by saying how sick they are, and how they're sick for so long, and then turn around and tell everyone how great your kid is because they do ___.  Every kid gets sick.  Every kid likes helping parents.  I have stopped being on social media as often because it is such an irritant to me.  Whenever I try to say something nice, it falls on deaf ears.  I don't know why I bother, when it's radio silence for huge amounts of time until someone needs something again.  A friend is someone who communicates consistently and doesn't make you feel bad.  They act like they have met my children, when in reality they've never met my kids, and didn't ever seem to be interested in them until they had a kid of their own.  I have consistently tried to reach out, send cards, send gifts, be there, and it's always radio silence until they need something.  Ugh.  I'm so over it.  They has no idea what roads we have gone down with our kids, but they always makes their own situation extra dramatic, so that theirs must be the worst/best of whatever it is.  Baby is sick?  Oh, it's the sickest kid ever and has been sick for 2 weeks and on and on.