Subliminal media messages update#

Like a rarely-active Facebooker who is suddenly pouring out their feelings through status updates. While the photos may vary, the backstory seldom vacillates: You were recently broken up with, you miss your significant other-who isn’t giving you the time of day-and you retaliate by posting these photos, with the hopes of relaying: Look at me, still the hot commodity you met 14 months ago, having so much fun! 3. And that’s what’s so sad about all of this: it really does get them every time! Which convinces the perpetrator that this works, and to perpetuate this god-awful practice. Slutty photos Conan GifsĪh, ye olde look-at-me-having-fun-juggling-tits/swimming-in-a-sea-of-men photo. And really, how is posting Beyonce’s “I Miss You” going to help your cause in any way? The subliminal message here is really not subliminal at all, but rather obvious, straight-forward, and pathetic. Disclosing your inner-most pain via a Frank O’Hara poem for the world to see is never something you look back on and think: “Man, did I triumph with that one!” It is something one looks back on cringing with self-inflicted humiliation and embarrassment. You know that app that Charlie makes on Girls to stop himself from calling or texting his ex-girlfriend Marnie? Well there should be a similar app for this odd compulsion. Because we’ve all been there: rejected, alone, desperately hurting.

Subliminal media messages update#

You have to feel bad for this person, as much as their tweet or status update makes you want to thrust a rusty nail into your cornea. The emotional, somber, and defeatist post that makes you feel awkward

Hence this list, which I hope will help clear up any confusions you may have regarding your ex girlfriend’s recent penchant for straddling other guys and documenting it. Unfortunately, social networks have made passive people of us all and so people often use these modes of communication to express their feelings passively. In fact, they’re quite often used as an outlet for frustrations, upsets or sorrows. As millenials have made abundantly clear, social networks aren’t just used to relay straightforward messages. Whether we like it or not, we live in a day and age where social media is laced into the very fabric of our lives.