I hate the "look what I got" mentality concerning Christmas

Apparently I really suck because you still don't know how emotions work or what the word happy means

The people that post stuff like that aren't happy:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facebook-instagram-twitter-social-media-makes-sad-lonely-attention-seekers-a7614396.html

https://www.makeuseof.com/social-media-making-you-sad-scientific-studies/

https://socialandmentalhealth.com/social-media-making-us-sad-and-lonely/

The discussion on social medias affect on out mental health have been a topic for the last 10 years. Have you been living under a rock???

I have - not commented any comments concerning this on ANY of the pictures I have seen

  • not told anyone off for hanging out on social media on Christmas - mostly because noone did it because they all value the company of the rest of us

  • not called anyone names, called people that does this any names or anything like that

The only fucking thing I have done is to make a small, lousy, insignificant post that maybe 10 people are going to see just to get it off my chest. To just get it out of my system and for a few seconds be honest about how much I miss my family. How much it makes me sad that there are several people out there that have the fortune to actually meet their family just to have that family member be on their phone instead of valuing the time that they get with their family

But you still keep on insisting I'm an asshole. I did not force you to read this post. I did not send this for everyone to see. I'm more then aware that this post is going to die in new. It probably already has. I'm not hurting anyone. I'm just a stranger with an oppinion and everyone knows that you should not care what people on the internet thinks. They are just people behind a screen

We are in a bloody pandemic. People are constantly dying. People are constantly loosing family members. So so so many people have not seen their family, celebrate their Christmases alone

And there are then still people that value internet likes and the gifts over there own family

Yes that makes me sad. That makes me misserable thinking about Grandma that finally gets to see their grandkids just to be ignored

I don't fucking care what you think about me but you coming here being this insufferably rude asshole that don't even take a single fucking second to actually read the post. Don't even take one second to reflect why I'm constantly saying that I'm not mad I'm sad. Bit instead keeps on running the same idiotic statement over and over and over

Honestly did somone drop you as a child? Are you a sociopath? Wtaf is wrong with you for being this... Dense

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