Social media

Has social media become insufferable for anyone else?

The algorithms are just nonstop directing me to pages preparing for the horrors of childbirth, the 800 million things you need to do to advocate for yourself because doctors are here to abuse you, how your relationship and body will change postpartum, every single gender reveal and baby shower balloon arch on the planet, and parents who are just over the moon with happiness and joy or in the darkest throes of PPD.

It feels like a non-stop assault to my eyeballs of how of my experience is supposed to look and feel at every single stage. When did this exciting event in our lives turn into an exploitation of one of the most sacred things in the world and a checklist for all the “happiness” we are supposed to prove online?

It’s made me hesitate to share anything online. I finally deleted my accounts because it was just too much non-stop information overload.

Feeling super old and grandma-ish. Maybe next I’ll complain about the price of milk?