Social Media is dangerous

[Yoylecake420]

THIS THIS THIS.

I understand that the phrase "if it's on the internet, people will never forget it" is a strong thing, but people fail to realize this is but a snapshot of a person's life and that snapshot is only but a temporary glime into who they used to be in the past. Same goes for opinions, they change overtime.

People online get so used to how someone acts on the internet before they leave for who knows how much a period of time, and when they come back they're completely different and to those familiar with the old, it's completely foreign and goes against what they believe in to the point they either denounce them or embrace them (most of the time it's the former), OR try and bring up the old stuff to try and chase them off again.

People are adverse to change if they become comfortabe, forgetting it's neccessary to grow, social media has made it so that stagnancy is good, change is evil. And if something changes, chase it off with what they used to be and ignore the fact the person MIGHT be self-improving or no longer like that.

I can understand if this stemmed from the roots of chasing off people who had shown patterns of being awful online but it's gotten to the point it's being abused GREATLY to a detrimental effect.

I agree. I've been harassed and mocked on the Internet due to my interests and actions.