Social Media in 2012 vs 2022

The "Why do I have anxiety?" part is actually dark and deep... but also hella funny! LOL Social Media causes so much wide-spread unnecessary anxiety.

"Our friend has 1000 ig followers" to me that is still a lot 😂😂😂

"I love the news Facebook feeds me. It's carefully curated to agree with me" omg I can't 😂😂😂

"Why do I have anxiety?" - a fantastic ending!

The Amber heard face literally TOOK ME OUT 😂😂😂 this was the funniest yet scarily true skit I’ve ever seen

OMG! We went from silly to seriously screwed in 10 years! The Depp impression attempt was hilarious! I'm gonna go cry now. 😜😂

"people need to hear my opinions" Too accurate 🤣🤣

my husband and I were just talking about this!! The internet was soo much more fun before, I feel like we were in the wild west where everyone just wanted to have fun and everything felt new- now it's all commercialized and everyone's just tryna hustle or get mad about something. :(

The "I spend 6 hours on social media, but post once a month" is too real. I actually haven't posted anything in even longer, and I actually have good pictures to post because I just got married. 😂

2012 seems to be around the time when social media started taking over our lives. I think the proliferation of smartphones contributed to this. I would love to go back to a 2008 social media world. There were less people, but the quality was better.

The Jonny Depp and Amber line was hilarious 😂 I was dying bc it is so true 😂😂

I remember when Facebook became popular among my group of college friends back in 2006, I thought the whole concept was SO WEIRD. Creating a shrine to yourself online so that everyone can see photos of you and hear all about your thoughts on everything and the events of your day? It seemed so over-the-top narcissistic and invasive. Like, who wants that many people to know that much about them anyway? Fast forward 16 years and a whole generation has grown up living their lives on SM. They’ll never know what it was like not to take themselves, their image, or their opinions so damn seriously. Some days it still blows my mind how much SM has changed every facet of life.

I remember how my peers and myself all made Facebook accounts during computer class in middle school. It was fun then. Giving up social media was the best thing I've ever done.

"Why do I have anxiety?" Deleting my Facebook was the best thing I ever did for my dad-to-day. Sharing articles started out cool, but when 3/4 of your feel is people sharing their version of doomsday content, not so much.

🤣🤣🤣 I literally cancelled my socials in June 2020 because of all of the above

What I love about social media is how many millions of people will literally believe something posted on social media without trying to vet it or not. The amount of misinformation instantly believed is so sad.

I was in high school when the internet started coming about...AOL, dial up, chat rooms, basic search engines, stuff like that. Even then, first thing, our teachers would tell us not to believe everything we read/see on the internet. I don't know how we have fallen so far from that basic tenet. /:

i feel like in 2012 everything on social media was so innocent and fun ! nobody cared what you posted or said or didn't say.

I'm 45, never got into social media. I use YouTube and Reddit. That's all I can handle.

Social media made the world worse...