IT never fails to surprise me the topics people get really opinionated about, and want to enter into long social media discussions on.

There are so many big issues I understand people wanting to debate and are majorly concerned about. The NHS, Brexit, climate change, the state of the economy are all perfect examples.

I understand those, but what I can not get my head around is the times when a trivial subject gets the attention. For instance, it was strange to see the social media debate that broke out surrounding the BBC's decision to change its weather map for forecasts.

For those not in the know, the earth shattering news this week was that BBC weather switched from an angled 3D view to a flat map for the first time in 13 years.

I guess I'm meant to have an opinion on this, but I am honestly struggling to care. It is a map. As long as the weather forecast does its job, why should anyone be bothered?

But no, a quick check of social media reveals thousands of people's opinions. "The place names now obscure the map and the weather," said one twitter user. "Central England is less stretched" said another. "New BBC weather map in proportion - about time," said another.

Probably my favourite was reading "Wow - finally, the BBC weather map shows the country as green, not brown!"

Some sections of the national media also joined in, saying viewers were now feeling less disorientated as "the tilted version induced reported seasickness".

Don't get me wrong here social media is a great thing - it provides a great platform to air views. But every so often I'm baffled what people want to spend time talking about.

On the day of the 'big' reveal, it also went to another level of stupidity when Ronnie Cowan, the MP for Inverclyde, said the weather map proves the BBC had been “misrepresenting the land mass of the UK for years", and he hoped it would lead to Scotland being treated more fairly in its news coverage. This nonsense was like a spoof news show, although the writers of the 90s comedy The Day Today would have probably rejected this idea for being too far fetched.

If only people cared as much about real issues affecting their lives, as they do about a map change.