I have never been a social media person. While most parents were complaining that their teenagers spent too much time on social media, my mom was complaining that I didn't spend enough. If you were to look at my track record on Instagram, you would see I've only posted two pictures in the last six months- both of them posted in the last week. Facebook is even less- probably about one post in the past year. I don't even have a twitter, and snapchat, kik, and the like are unheard of in my house. I have never fallen prey to the obsession with social media that those girls in the podcast have but I have had other issues with social media that might have just as many detrimental effects.

I get left out of things. A lot. And it's one thing to not be invited to something and never hear it happens. It's another thing not to be invited and find 80 odd pictures about the event on social media. I've had a lot of grief of this sort of thing for a while now and I feel like it is one of the bigger issues with social media that most people over look. Because for ever girl you invite to your birthday party, there's three more you didn't invite and all of them are on social media. All of them see the pictures you post and the fun that you had and those who weren't invited get the glaring reminder that they weren't thought of. It makes them feel lonely, isolated and invisible.  Now obviously, you can't invite all of your Facebook friends to every get together- that's just absurd. But no one needs to know that you and your friends when to the mall, or hiking or whatever and that they weren't invited. So, before you post your next picture on Instagram or Facebook or the like, think about who it will help- and who it might hurt.