I am a cheater….I am cheating on TikTok.
As I contemplate going to Reddit to see if I can be calmed down (more info below) I think “Is this going to be my new addiction?” “Is Reddit going to replace TikTok, for me?”
I feel like such a cheater. Today I opened Reddit — a “social news website and forum where content is socially curated and promoted by site members through voting” says Stafford [1] — which is not my first choice of getting reliable advice since I found it very confusing.
Before I say anything, please forgive me about my poor terminology about Reddit. I am spiritually an 85 year old that has a huge IPad to text people and needs people to explain what certain words and phrases mean because I am not up to date with it — which is why I probably barely used Reddit and Twitter, which does not make me look to good if I want to be an involved parent.
But let me tell you something, as Safari, TikTok, and doing my assignments were not helping me calm my nerve about college applications…I turned to Reddit — as any sane person would do — to see if there were any information that I could use to #1 help me gain more insight on the college decision process and #2 calm me down (I was/am stressing about one colleges’ decision, since there is not a specific release date and I put so much of my time into making it “amazing” (not perfect, since there were things I wanted to change but after doing it so many times it came to a point where I had to push submit and cross my fingers and piggy toes and not look back **hint hint I looked back at least ten times since pushing the submit button**).
Anyways, let me tell you…as soon as I typed and submitted what I was looking for on Reddit, it was smooth sailing and calm but as I wanted to explore more of college life and college stories…it became a warzone…a breeding ground of crazy-yet hilarious, unhinged, and unserious comments and responses — in a good way. But as soon as I caught myself LOLing I quickly stopped and thought “am I cheating on my true love?…TikTok.” (P.S. its not true love it’s an addiction that I am slowly breaking away and getting bored from).
I have not had a laugh so loud from a social media platform in a long time, sorry TikTok (I enjoy your platform). There were “threads”???? (I think it was called a thread) that were called “Sh*tpost Wednesdays” where Reddit users would say the most unhinged comments on the users initial posts about college. Nothing bad about the colleges, but funny things that would be in a college student/college students perspective. One post was about being “poorphobic” which is being afraid of being around poor people (I find it funny because of the tone the wrtiter was using).
Although I have not fully put the “ring on it” in which I mean creating an account on Reddit, I will definitely be using it more often if I want a chuckle.
I hope you got a laugh out of my first time experience on Reddit, it was surely something. LOL
Anyways, if you have not yet seen the trailer for Inside Out 2, than go see it! It is where Riley who is a teenager experiences new emotions which are all together in the control center of Rileys brain. One of the new emotions that will be introduced is our good old pal ANXIETY:
[2] The picture above is from: https://screenrant.com/inside-out-2-release-date-cast-plot-updates/
I still cannot wait to update you on my Thanksgiving.
I do not even know what I’ll be doing. LOL
If I do not write to you on Thanksgiving, have a great Thanksgiving.
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