If You’re Doing This, Please STOP!

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Disclaimer: These are my opinions; don’t be hypersensitive.
Anonymous messages are a social media trend that has been running rampant over the last couple months. In case you have been living under a rock, anonymous messages allow users to submit whatever they want to another with total anonymity. A majority of these messages are inside jokes and the user can tell who sent it, however; the remainder are of a sexual and aggressive nature. The idea that people submit themselves to open harassment amazes me; I have two basic problems with this concept.
1.What self-respecting person finds pleasure or gratification from compliments by people they’ll never get the chance to confront. Sure it’s nice to be called cute or something a little more graphic, but it’s an empty compliment. This trend just speaks to the growing separation from human interaction. In junior high, I had to compliment a girl face to face. Then, in high school I would send a picture of my face and compliment her. Now, no one has a clue who complimented them, but the narcissistic people can go to bed happy knowing one out of 7 billion people anonymously called them cute.
2.My biggest issue is that a consumer of this trend attempts to entice the anonymous messenger to claim their messages. Hate to break it to them, they won’t. If the messenger has to hide behind a wall of anonymity, then they most likely won’t abandon their security blanket. Also, If the users are providing people a way in which to say whatever they want, they can’t become frustrated when the messenger won’t back up their insensitive remarks. Companies are profiting off the declining social skills of the youth and the majority of my peers are lapping it up.
P.S. I am proud to say I have avoided such features and I urge my readers to as well.
Great Article Samuel. I really like why you wrote this article. I dislike this social media trend because its a waste of time and their is real know point of this. Keep up the great work Samuel.
I completely and totally agree with you. You have such a way to make your point that it could convince anyone not to comply to the anonymous features of social media. You took such a simple thing that everyone has heard of and most people wouldn’t find a problem with, and you explained the problems and the simple way to fix them. I enjoyed finding someone of the same opinion. This is a great article. Keep it up!
Amazing article Samuel. I liked how somebody finally talked about this. It is an ongoing trend that is a time waster. I thnik that to many people do use it and it a bad mean of communication. Keep puming out these great articles Samuel.
This is a wonderful article. I agree with you in saying that this is crazy and that people should not be doing this. This is something that should be shunned not encouraged. Great Article!
I think that this article was amazing. People on Social Media make it an on-going trend to send anonymous messages to each other. Most of the time the comments turn out to be hateful so why do it. And whether the comments are nice or hateful, they don’t stop. I agree that it is nice to receive compliments, but I think it would be 100 times better if you did it in person than on an app anonymously. I feel like it would mean more to the person you are complimenting.
I thought this was a great article, there are some things I dont agree with as much as others, but over I thought this this was a very well organized and intersting article to read about.
Great article, I agree that their is a negative side to sending anonymous messages and can hurt the users who get these messages. Most comments I see are hateful and aren’t comments the user wants to hear.