Etcetera Talks About Bad Social Media Manner

You’re driving down town and find yourself stuck behind
someone going 15 mph below the speed limit. What’s your first thought? That guy
needs to get off his cell phone!

You walk through an airport concourse and notice a man
pacing back and forth, laughing out loud in a voice that bounces off the walls
30 yards away while he chats on his cell phone. You think, That’s why they have
cell phones restrictions on flight.

Remember those days when you could go to a movie—or to
church—and not worry about being distracted by ringing phones or by the white
glow of someone texting a friend? Remember when meetings at work weren’t
interrupted by phone calls or messages that people just had to accept or reply?

Nearly all divorces especially within the entertainment
industry are as a result of bad social media manners. You can’t blame facebook
for your divorce. All it does is exploit the cracks that are already in your
relationship.

Here are some things that suggest you have bad social media
manners:

1. Posting your wristwatch collections on facebook or
instagram and lying about their worth.

2. When you feel it is really that important to facebook or
instagram your amala or jollof rice for the world to take you more seriously.

3. When you don’t know that posting how your wife annoyed
you on facebook is like putting it on the billboard at Allen avenue roundabout.

4. When you are so obsessed over your looks on Instagram
that you forget how you look in reality.

5. Spreading your dirty laundry all over social media and
getting carried away with the meaningless approval of strangers online.

6. When you keep posting things that can be misinterpreted
and get mad when you are called a bitch or prostitute.

7. When you talk more about your relationships on facebook
than you do face-to-face with the person you are actually in a relationship
with.

8. Carrying your phone with you everywhere you go. The
bathroom, the toilet, even in bed you keep moving if from on hand to the other
like the staff of the Oba of Benin.

9. When you are ruining intimacy with your spouse because
your phones keep beeping with alerts, notifications and reminders, and you
replaced that deep-felt, long conversation you should be having with your
spouse with the non-urgent, shallow tasks of retweeting fun tweets, updating
your facebook status every minute.

10. You keep liking pictures of your exes on instagram or
tagging them to all your pictures on facebook.

11. When you replace the simple conversations you should
have with your spouse with endless scrolling through social media in search of
funny images and videos.

12. When you become that selfish, nonempathetic individual
who is only worried about how many likes your instagram pictures received, or
how many retweets you get.

13. When you allow the small, precious moments of your
relationship slip away because you are too focused on reading all your messages
and you always get irritated or unreasonably anxious when asked to put the
phone away even for 5 minutes.

14. When all your post on instagram carries hashtags of
#No-filters, #Naturally-me, #Haters-go-to-hell, #Kill-yourself, #Simply-me,
#Na-God, #Fashionista-of-life.

15. When someone posted the picture of the container that
fell from the bride at Ojuelegba on facebook and you clicked “like”, do you
like the fact that the container fell and killed people or you like the crushed
cars in the picture?