I haven’t had the most positive experiences dealing with social media.
I guess I’m thankful these websites weren’t around when I was a preteen, but it has been enough in the time since college.
Staying in touch with my friends from school shouldn’t require me wading through so much negativity. I feel bad for anyone who fails to see through the facade that we all perpetuate on these websites by only focusing on the happy and exciting moments in life. Or, you have people who are toxic and only want to post about how much they hate the world and everyone who inhabits it. Once you’ve seen this world evolve over the past 15 years, you start to lose any desire to stay in it. However, there are occasions where I find good information through social media. Sometimes social media websites are the only places where I can find reliable reviews for local businesses that aren’t reviewed on Google. Other times you are confronted by ads for these types of businesses when you visit pages on social media devoted to your city, neighborhood, or community. That was the case with my new heating and cooling supplier. I had been grumbling for months about the below-average service I was getting from my previous HVAC company, but I hadn’t started looking for an alternative yet. When the ad for the new HVAC company appeared on my newsfeed on Facebook, I decided to look into their presence in my community through local reviews. It turns out that this HVAC company is highly rated among other people in this area. I’m glad that I took a risk and hired them for air conditioner service, because now I have a maintenance contract with the highest rated HVAC company in this part of the state.