Just as predicted a bunch of people took to social media to gloat about something that is a completely normal thing to do. I feel as though there is a certain demographic of people that are so addicted to getting recognition or likes for doing anything that they feel as though they are obligated to post just about anything that they do in their lives.
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It happens every time and while I have very little to do with traditional social media and NEVER post or comment there I do pop in during each election to see which of my friends from the past feel the need to get up on their soapbox and tell the world, or at least the very small segment of people that are still talking to them, that they did something that is so common that it isn't newsworthy, even on small scale.
Every single time it is the same people in my friends list that do this. They also happen to exclusively be the liberal people that I know. Every... single.... time.
Most of my current-day friends are conservative because I live in a conservative part of the country. However, I have been alive for a while and still maintain contact with liberal friends that I made in college. Politics didn't consume our lives back then nor did it dictate who we would become friends with. In fact, the conversation rarely came up in social settings and social media didn't exist when I was in high school and college. Things were more civil and we still picked on one another back then without fear of being charged with a hate crime.
I thought it was amusing that one of the people I know fell into looking exactly like the type of person that you would expect to be liberal these days. Skinny, big beard to compensate for the almost unavoidable male-pattern baldness that happens in one's 40's and he works at a place that specializes in overpriced luxury cocktails in Oregon.
I don't think that we would really have much to talk about these days because almost everything this guy has posted before I abandoned FB resulted in an argument and while I never participated I did notice that over the years he was whittling down his friends any time that anyone had a different viewpoint than he did.
I think this is a terrible way to live your life. While I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to befriend and overly political liberal (or an overly political conservative) I found that entire process of forcing yourself into a permanent echo chamber to be very non-beneficial to anyone.
I wanted to say something like "I am so proud of you!" about his voting but he probably would have taken it seriously. It also doesn't seem like a coincidence that the people that I know that post endlessly about political stories on their personal FB profiles tend to be some of the least successful people that I have met in my life. Is there a connection there? This applies to both conservatives and liberals. The ones who try to use social media as a soapbox in an ill-contrived attempt to convince the masses to join their side are the same ones that I can tell and have heard have a very low level of happiness in their own lives.