Students – and people in general –  need to learn what and what not to post.

Recently, I’ve found myself giggling at and being perfectly entertained by Yik Yak, an app that serves as a bulletin board for people to anonymously post whatever wild or fantastically humorous thoughts run through their busy, pudding-brained minds.

The majority of the postings I find on Yik Yak serve as evidence for the downfall of decent society. Posts like, “Does anyone want to fuck in the library?” and other sexist, racist, or general discriminatory posts prove that the hope for a decent society is slowly falling into a bottomless pit filled with the uneducated, ill-mannered, youth of our country.

While Yik Yak allows its users to post anonymously, that shouldn’t make people feel the need to post their most putrid thoughts regarding how they feel about race or how they would slaughter countless villages and eat the hearts of every child within a 10-mile radius for the chance to get in bed with a person.  People have forgotten that not everything that runs through their brains deserves to be shouted from a rooftop or posted on a message board.

While some of these postings are crude and indecent, some are mildly, if not greatly, entertaining. Every now and then, there will be a perfect gem of a post that keeps me laughing for minutes on end. Though rare, they are the reason I continue to scroll through the app, even if they are severely outnumbered by these awful postings.

These senseless postings aren’t restricted to Yik Yak. Other social media, like Twitter and the titan that is Facebook, see these kinds of posts every day, but in far greater numbers.

The nonsensical and vague status updates and tweets are just as bad the vulgar postings. I don’t care about your vague status that’s begging for attention. Chances are, no one will give it a second glance, and your craving for likes and retweets will go unsatisfied.

If you’re dying to post something for the world to see, make it meaningful and useful. If something happens in your state that you disagree with or are enthusiastic about, post about it and create an engaging conversation, instead of posting about a teacher refusing to stop teaching simply because it’s nearing the end of the semester.

Our obsession with posting every little thing that comes to us will be our downfall. Watch what you post.