Valentine’s Day is my least favorite day of the year. Not because I am single, but because of all the Valentine’s Day hate on social media. Can we all just agree to collectively stop with the overly dramatic anti-Valentine’s Day tweets and Facebook statuses? I highly doubt all of my single Facebook friends are going to be “forever alone” or die alone surrounded by their 15 cats just because they are dateless on one day in February.

The age of social media has transformed Valentine’s Day from a cheesy way to celebrate love into an endless feed of complaints by self-proclaimed bitter love haters. Since the clock struck midnight Feb. 1, I have seen countless updates on how people are so annoyed with all the happy couples on their newsfeed while they are planning on spending their Valentine’s Day alone with a pint of ice cream and their Netflix queue.

Yes, everyone is entitled to his or her own feelings on the holiday, but why do happy couples have to suddenly become infuriating around Valentine’s Day? One little holiday makes people change from being happy for their family and friends who are in good relationships to being resentful of those same relationships. The fact that they then complain about it online is just ridiculous.

If people want to be mad about something on Valentine’s Day, they should direct their fury toward the industry, not toward themselves for being single or other people for being in relationships. According to a survey done by the National Retail Federation, total spending for this Valentine’s Day is estimated to reach $18.6 billion, with the average person spending $130.97 on his or her beloved. The commercialism of love is something to be angry about this holiday, not love itself. A well-written and researched blog post about how the Valentine’s Day industry is evil is much more interesting to read than another tweet about how love does not exist.

Another easy way to stick it to the entire Valentine’s Day institution is to simply not acknowledge the holiday at all. If you really want to show all your Twitter followers and Facebook friends how much you do not care about being single on Valentine’s Day, just treat it like a normal day. Post a funny cat picture, re-tweet Britney Spears and continue to move on with your life.

And if singles really want to do something outrageous and Facebook status-worthy on Valentine’s Day, they could actually celebrate it. Go with other single friends ice skating or out to dinner and celebrate all the platonic love you share with your friends. Recreate the Valentine’s Day parties from elementary school past, trade kitten-adorned valentines, drink fruit punch and eat pink sugar cookies and muster up the courage to talk to your crush.

Call me a hopeless romantic, but Valentine’s Day is a day to take chance in love. So celebrate love this Valentine’s Day – or don’t – but whatever you do just do not complain about it online.