Here I am, sitting here at this computer, typing into the box. Social media is a crazy animal. It seems like there is a new trend every month, whether it be "WHAT ARE THOOOSE!?", white suburban tweens "whipping" and "nae nae-ing" to try and be like their favorite Vine celebrity (screw Nash Grier, btw), and my personal least favorite, "open letters." I know it's kind of ironic I am writing about how much I hate open letters on a publication that makes them so prominent, but irony is pretty lit if you ask me, so I'll stick with it.

If little Joey two shoes made fun of your wacky hair-do today in math class, none of your social media "friends" want to read about how that made you feel, so shut the fuck up and get a normal haircut. Oh? Did the girl/guy who you had a crush on in seventh grade show up on your Instagram feed? Did that make you feel like you lost the first person you loved? Well if it did, and your reaction was to log on to theodysseyonline.com and write about it, don't do it. Nobody gives a darn, and you didn't actually love him/her. You were 13, and hormones are a hell of a drug.

Now, I know what you're thinking — "Ryan, why are you being so harsh? Don't you know you can choose to unfollow these terrible people on Facebook, or just not click on the link they shared?" My answer to that is, shut the heck up. Nowadays, you don't need any sort of qualifications to write an article or open letter on a legit-looking website (what you're reading right now is my case and point, I'm a dirt bag who shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a computer with internet access). So, it seems like every single day, some new person is spewing stupid stuff that nobody cares about, and it peeves me off. All of that being said, there are lots of serious issues surrounding us right now that need to be talked about and I'm very happy websites like these give students the platform to share their opinion in a manner much more civilized than a Facebook comment argument with your Aunt Gina from Louisiana about Donald Trump's foreign policy and that segregation and slavery are why America was never actually great.

That's enough wordy, run-on sentences for me. The moral of the story is that nobody cares about your little personal problems, so don't waste your time writing to us why you miss high school soccer practice now that you're in college, you stupid idiot!