Does anyone else feel a little fed up with society?

[purringbeginner509]

I despise the word 'hipster', so please don't get me wrong - I'm not one of those people. I'm not all "F the mainstream and F you too". But I have a bit of concern about today's age and no one seems to agree with me.

People are so. Bloody. Obsessive. Between the social networks (facebook, twitter etc.) and cell phone obsessions, I am far beyond annoyed with the contemporary trends. The social media obsession has gotten so out of control that my friends start flipping the hell out whenever they're cellphones die. They stick their big noses in their blackberry screens all day - several times, I've been talking to a friend and in the middle of the conversation, they take their phone out. "Oh, sorry, it's important. I'm waiting for my girlfriend/boyfriend to text me back."

I understand that I probably sound a little complain-y. And I'm actually horribly sorry to those of you who do have cell phones and use them in moderation. But it isn't just teenagers who are obsessed - both of my parents have 700 hundred dollar phones which they spend about 200 dollars a month on. When they aren't at work, they are on their fat asses, playing with their cellphones. The out of control part is that we don't even have a telephone in our house anymore.

I hardly want to talk about Facebook. I'm just appalled that whenever I talk to someone they go, "What's your facebook addy?" Are you seriously so obsessed that you assume everyone has an account on that silly website? Silly is an understatement. It's just stupid. You upload a bunch of pictures of yourself, you bitch about how much your life sucks, and you drone on about the great party you went to last night. It's funny, because everyone is so harsh toward Myspace ("myspace is gay" as some of you would put it) and Facebook is literally the exact same kind of website.

I don't know. I feel obnoxious and teenagerish ranting about this, but I really had to get it out there. As I said, I don't have Facebook or a cell phone, and I'm very happy with my life. I have a job, a 5.0 GPA, volunteer regularly and have lots of time for hobbies - stupid ones, my friends would say. I think painting is a lovely hobby, but maybe that's just me.

Anyways, what's your word on the subject? I appreciate you being respectful of everyone's opinions.
Oops. I contradicted myself in the first paragraph there. I suppose I *am* all "F the mainstream". haha.
Thanks for your opinion, prisoner. I genuinely haven't brought this up for the sake of complaining. I'd like to agree with you when you say that "society sucks and we all know it", but I think you're quite off, my friend. If everyone was aware of it, I'm sure half the people on the planet wouldn't be 'so stupid it's scary.'