Social Media Friendships

I have a tinsy opinion, and this is my outlet.

I have been thinking lately, mostly about social media. I see a lot of people snapping pictures of them with their friends at the latest restaurant on social media. I sit with Zane and look around the restaurant and see whole families staring at a screen. I check instagram and people who are together are snapping pictures together. I just sit and wonder, are they actually communicating?

I used to be upset Zane and I didn't have many pictures together. Like the internet didn't know that I was spending time with my husband. What a travesty. I got upset because I thought people didn't know I had friends in Blacksburg, because I wasn't whipping my phone out to snap pictures of the hundreds of times we got together. Even the miniature relationships we have now, I wonder if people believe we actually have friends because well I have no pictures of myself with them.

But then I realized, I don't care what social media thinks about my friendships. It's actually very frustrating I feel I have to justify my relationships with some people on the internet. What i do care about, is the people I am spending my time with. I want to be more invested in the people than the photos.

I will definitely cherish my 3 photos I have of my Virginia friends, but I will cherish more, the game nights, the tears on couches, the Jesus talks, and everything else. I would charge whoever is reading this, to put the phones down, and look at your companion in the face and get to know them. Talk instead of tweet. Instagram, twitter, anything else- they can wait, people can't.

Now I'm stepping off my soapbox.