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.'

[Daisy Ray]

Ummmm.... I love my cellphone myspace is lame now and your old!! Have some fun you boob

[curvedweather621]

I'm sick of people like you.. contemptuous and angry. Society sucks, and we all know it. Why complain? Why brag about how much better you think you are? We're all equally stupid, and just equal, period. It's scary, honestly.. but what's the point of complaining to the internet?

[HowDoYouLoo]

I understand what you mean in a way. Society has become a bit...downhill. I'm getting fed up of everyone talking about facebook, I deleted mine.

[Katie Hey there]

People have always had some sort of trend they do. But yea today people are a lot more into violent inappropriate stuff, everyones trying to act oh so cool, with there stupid backwards hats and baggy pants and there phones. Little kids have phones! I know a 7 year old who does.... It's getting crazy in today's society. Everyone is obsessed with Facebook. It's annoying. Oh and another thing that is really stupid in today's "trends" is that a lot of people try to act random! Ugh this one girl talks with a weird voice because she thinks that's cool I guess. She talks in a deeper weird voice and says "omg!" and "ikr" and all the obsessed people over Justin beiber are really weird, they only like him because he is famous! He was your average kid before, no girl who likes him now would ever want to go out with him then. People now a days only do certin things because everyone else is. Can't anyone ever just be themselves for once!?

Facebook is stupid, I agree I don't even want to talk about it! Ugh. All people do is post random crap that they think will get them attention. Like they post quotes and "haha guess what I did today" crap. Or "just went to the movies with my BFF yay!" nobody cares about that!

Also lots of people are obsessed with texting.

Society gets weirder and weirder every year!

Oh well, hope i helped answer your question some how.

[☠88â˜]

I think it is all a lot of petty distractions to keep our attention away from the fact that our civilised societies are all going down the toilet, and the nasty people behind it are the ones in control of the distractions so it all works out very well for them.