Social Media and The Amazing Stream of Consciousness – First Thoughts Aren’t Always the Best

Now that social media is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, from the White House to Waffle House, maybe it’s time users took a look at their habits.  Sharing is great when it means something, but today’s level of self-absorbed streams of consciousness clogging Twitter and Facebook are probably not exactly what the founders of these now tech giants envisioned.  We have a President who can only communicate in 140 character grunts, regurgitating what Fox and Friends spews leading a generation who is fixated on posting, SnapChatting and Tweeting every aspect of their daily lives.

Social Media is captivating swaths of users like a mirror captivates an orangutan at the zoo – with the exception that users have iPhones with data-plans; who can share their every waking thought.  Throw liquor and peer pressure into the mix and you have NewsFeeds that would make the New York Post and National Enquirer cringe.  Recently, some high power politicos have remarked on how a similar phenomenon is plaguing politics – at a so called adult level.

The constant stream of consciousness, where some leaders think it is absolutely acceptable to barrage their followers with every waking tirade and thought.   First thoughts aren’t always the best and maybe should be kept to one’s own head, much like the constant Facebooking and Tweeting of every banal facet of life.   Social media was, and is, intended to share genuine interactions and advance relevant ideas that promote thought education and commerce – not an online grocery store check-out magazine rack.