The old guy wants to know "What's social about social media?"

     Social gatherings have been around for ages. It’s where you could meet people, develop friendships, tell jokes, dance with a girl, debate political viewpoints, etc. The word social evokes a pleasant gathering, for the most part, but the current social media doesn’t have that same vibe. It seems more appropriate to call it anti-social media, not to say there aren’t positive posts, but few by comparison.

     The old guy likes the jokes (even the lame ones), vacation photos, family posts even political viewpoints, if they’re not hateful. That’s where the problem is, most political posts are hateful. You know what the old guy does? He hides them. People posting hateful messages are closed-minded and won’t consider others opinions. To use the words of a younger generation, those people are cra, cra, so you gone. See, the old guy has learned some new lingo from the youngsters.

     Let’s put the social back into social media by hiding hateful messages. It won’t eliminate the hate but if at least you won’t have to look at it. The old guy says, “If you don’t want to be labeled cra cra, be more sociable.”