People always say girls mature quicker than boys but when it comes to social media I disagree.
Girls:
- sh*t banter online, just comments under memes like 'omg so us!' 'goals'
- change their profile pictures all the time, always some selfie that they've spent ages posing for
- almost every picture of them on instagram is a picture of themselves. them in any cool situation
- uploading 30+ pics in an album every month from a trip or social occasions as if people care
- birthday picture collages and extremely long posts. like they're trying to prove to everyone else how close they are to the birthday girl
- snapchat stories of them lip syncing to songs or stories that are just selfies
- the worst is when they take a billion sc story videos on a night out of them singing to sings and being all posey
- boomerangs of them moving 2 inches
- overediting photos
- treating facebook like linkedin. take it very seriously, changing featured photos and cover pics all the time as if people give a sh*t. they put actual effort into their bios
- uploading photos of them in a snapchat filter. jokes when they try and be subtle by using one of the "beautifying" filters
- lame tinder bios
- majority of the girls on tinder are just using it for an ego boost
- on TSR you can spot girls a mile off. the choice of words, emojis, the exclamation marks
This one is offline but one day when I was in a female friend's uni room, she had a tonne of photos printed out and hung them on string (which is another thing girls seem to be obsessed with) and one of the photos was a selfie of just herself, at home in her bathroom with full face of makeup? like an actual posed selfie she uploaded on instagram? Found it hilarious but also incredibly vain of her. I wish I had asked her about it.
I am aware that not all girls are like this and there are boys who do similar things. But there is a much higher proportion of girls partaking in these activities. Why is that? Why do girls take social media so seriously? Why does it take them longer to grow out of these things?
The pictures I could put down to girls feeling like they can only get validated from their looks and maybe society has told them looks are important in girls. But the rest. Who is to blame for that? Why don't boys do these things as much?