Who Am I ?

My name isn’t important, neither is my gender, culture, religion, or anything that puts people in social groups or hierarchies. I wanted to start this blog mainly to get things off my chest, but without the general attention of people from my everyday life. I want to be able to discuss things both personal and not, without being questioned, and feel a need to put a filter. I am not a huge fan of social media. Yes, I have Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat but that does not mean I use them. In fact, I find them quite … damaging. People use them to be validated by others or proceed to rank their fellow followers. It has become such a norm to humanity that if an individual doesn’t post on Christmas or their birthday, this MUST mean something is wrong. This could lead them to think that, ‘oh they must have had a bad Christmas’, or ‘maybe they didn’t go out with anyone’. Social media is now seen as a need. Everyone must have an account, follow certain people, post certain things. But it’s not because they want to, rather than simply let other people know what they’re up to and portray their image in a certain way. This is why I decided to make a blog, so I can freely speak about what’s going on without actually drawing attention toward myself. So to end off the first post I am a female that is nineteen years of age, and I am not a writer, but this is how I am choosing to express myself.