Instagram, really!?

Today I got an email from tripadvisor with the headline “Top 10 most instagramable restaurants”.  And what’s sad is that I can guarantee that it was probably their best piece of marketing as it appealed to the millennials who don’t care about the taste of food anymore. They don’t care about anything unless they can Instagram it to show people that they have experienced it. But I just don’t get it.

I recently went to watch Northampton Saints vs The Saracens in the rugby Cup Final, and more people were viewing the game and award ceremony at the end through their phones with filters and shit then people who weren’t. How many people are going to watch the shit footage they took? Photos are nice, but shitty video footage which is shaky and has someone hysterically screaming in the background is fucking redundant. I feel the same about concerts, it’s all about z-rate footage of people dancing and singing badly, during which some guy is maybe singing on stage and they are so far away it literally could be anyone. What’s wrong with seeing something with your eyes? Is it the fact that you might have to tell someone that you saw it and there isn’t any evidence or is the fact that you might actually have to talk to someone too scary? Or maybe everyone has a shit memory?

It’s like fireworks, who wants to rewatch a video of fireworks? I see them at bonfire night every year and not once have I forgotten what they looked like or wanted to rewatch a previous experience of fireworks. I just don’t understand it.

Have you ever thought about how difficult it is to make friends as an adult? It’s really weird, you can’t talk to people anymore because it will be seen as “creepy”.  I’ve looked at adult classes as a way of socialising, but it isn’t easy to do really as you actually have to be interested in the subject matter if you’re spending that much money on them. I guess most people stay with their group of friends from school, I don’t really fit in that well with my group of friends of school, and to be honest I shouldn’t really call them friends if I haven’t seen most of them in over 6 months. So the real question is how do you get to know new people who aren’t work friends?

The correct answer is simply that you don’t.

You can try to make friends and talk to people, but unless you’re rich or good looking, it isn’t that easy. But then if you think about it, millennials are always on their phones, probably just watching videos of cats or people falling over (Heaven forbid they actually fucking watch videos of fireworks and concerts that they have fucking filmed!?). So I guess maybe this generation is the loneliest generation because no one ever truly talks to other people and are only interested in one-upping themselves over everyone else. It just seems pointless when we all have our own battles to contend with aswell. I’m not surprised that most of my closest friends at the moment are in their forties, because they are normal people, they know how to talk and you can actually have a conversation with them.

I’m a sarcastic lonely angry man and the more I write the more I feel like I’m too old for this shitty generation of egotistical twats.