@SororityProblems

Over the past ten years, social media has exploded and it continues to change everyday. When I was in elementary school, we had Yahoo! Messenger. That quickly turned into AOL Instant Messenger (“AIM”), followed by MySpace, then Facebook, and now Twitter! Twitter has exploded and has definitely influenced girls’ lives, especially when it comes to sorority girls like me.

The creator of the twitter account @SororityProblem is named Megan Becker and is a Delta Gamma at Michigan State University. She claims that the reason she created this account was “[she] had way too many thoughts in [her] head.” In addition to watching Gossip Girl on NetFlix, shopping online, and getting spray tans, posting to @SororityProblem has become one of my obsessions!

For those of you that aren’t that familiar with Twitter, to post a “sorority girl problem” you would type a brief line about the problem you are having and then tag it by typing in @SororityProblem. (Tagging is just a way to sort out the posts, like giving it a label.) Here are some examples of what a Sorority Girl Problem might be:

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It’s pouring outside and I don’t have my rain boots! @SororityProblem

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My DVR cut off the rose ceremony of The Bachelor… #TeamKacieB @SororityProblem

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I don’t have time to shower and I ran out of Dry Shampoo #greasy @SororityProblem

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During class, instead of taking notes, I was planning my wedding on Pinterest and my Macbook died! @SororityProblem

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My date to semiformal left with my sorority sister @SororityProblem

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After months of keeping up with the problems we sorority girls must overcome, have realized how lucky I truly am. Sometimes I get into a funk where I am feeling down, or just having “one of those days.” When days like that come my way, I have trained myself to stop, take a breath, and say out loud what is really bothering me. After saying my “problems” out loud, I realize how unimportant all of these issues are. Outside of the Greek community, outside of College Station, even outside of Texas, there is a huge world out there filled with people suffering. Some people have had to face natural disasters, diseases, or an economic depression. And although venting on Twitter about my hair, clothes, sorority dues, and boys is satisfying, I think it is important for us to all have a reality check and remember that if the only things you are complaining about are materialistic, you must have a pretty good life!

Am I saying to stop following @SororityProblem? No! It provides way too much entertainment and pleasure to give up (just like Diet Coke)! What I am suggesting is to change up your posting pattern. Try to balance out the negative posts with positive posts. Or every time you tweet a complaint, make up for it with a tweet about how thankful you are for something.

(Thanks to Mary Becker, creator of @SororityProblem.)