Lately, I have considered myself the 'Social Media Police' [Everytime I see something obscene, I report it]. I'm not kidding, seriously. You can ask my mom if you have to [hahahahaha]! That may sound stupid, but I am completely serious. If no one loves social media, I do. From Twitter, to Facebook, and the almighty Pinterest, I am on board for all of them. When I get on these sites, mainly Twitter and Instagram, I see horrific things. By horrific, I mean people being severely rude to each other and saying vicious things behind a keyboard. Before I go on, I want to clarify things so I won't sound hypocritical. I have before done some stupid and immature things on social media, like Twitter. I just wanted to clarify that because there are some people in the world who CAN and WILL call out a hypocrite SO fast.
The other day, I was on my latest obsession, Vine, and I saw a video of a girl who was bigger in size. She made the fact well known that she is comfortable in her own skin and perfectly fine with her weight. Obviously, the people in the comments did not like that. They were cruel, calling her names such as fat ***, and 'a heart attack waiting to happen'. What in the world would provoke one to call a girl, let alone anyone, those names? I don't quite understand some people's minds. Some people feel the need to point out other people's flaws and their minor or major differences. It is sickening to watch people pick on someone else because they lack excitement in their lives, so they feel the need to ruin someone else's.
The one thing I hate more than anything is seeing people joke on others because of their weight. I don't joke on people's weight because I know I am not poster model for healthy, and I have no problem whatsoever acknowledging that. I strongly dislike seeing people get picked on for things they cannot control. Even if they can control them, no one deserves to be picked on for whatever the reason is.
My main point is that people are cruel, and some people are just now realizing that. This world is not nice, and it is full of not so nice people. I try to do my part and be nice and generous to as many people as I can. Sometimes it becomes very hard to be polite to those who don't show the same respect towards you. WE have to do our part by making people realize that beating someone else up emotionally is not going to strengthen their self-esteem at all. We all need a little 'social media police' in us at times to defeat those bullies.
**The girl I was previously speaking about said something on Vine that got me. She said something SIMILAR to this, "The people who wish for world peace are the same people who comment things like, 'you're fat, you're ugly."**
-Summer.
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