Social Media Army

Hey everyone,

Firstly - extremely sorry for huge delay in posting anything. Sorry :( 

This is something I've noticed for a long time, and I've been guilty of too, but recently it's really started to bother me and I feel like this is the time I may be able to put what I'm thinking into words for once. 

When someone is upset, it is 100% right to support this person, but what always seems to happen with twitter and facebook is that their friends start a barrage of tweeting and posting statuses, most of the time because they just want to be involved and not to genuinely support this person. And this my friends, is what is commonly known as shit-stirring. And sure this is annoying, but the bad thing is it seems to build up a sort of army against the other supposedly offending party, and  whether what they've done is right or wrong, from first hand experience, having loads of people being against you, it's shit.

Being on the receiving end of one of these "armies" starts to make you feel as if you are alone and regardless of what you've done it makes you feel incredibly guilty. And having lots of people refusing to listen to your point of view because they want to jump on the bandwagon of someone else's problems can make you feel as if your feelings aren't valid or important, and let me tell you that they always are. The lady I saw yesterday because of reasons said something to me that has really stuck in my head: "you feel these things, and regardless of whether you should or shouldn't, you do, and that's that." Which I completely agree with, I think anyone feeling anything has the right to feel that way because feelings aren't fake, you cannot make yourself feel a certain way, so why do some people think that their feelings have higher importance than other peoples? No! 

What I'm trying to say is that these groups of people who use twitter etc. to group together to rant about other people cause people to think that they're unimportant (whether they're in the wrong or not) because they only take into consideration one person's feelings. People make mistakes, that's why maths exams and huge companies take into account human error. Be more forgiving and shit-stir less, everyone will thank you for it.

Jess xo