The internet is exhausting

I can relate, I had joined a gardening group on Facebook, thinking "hey, this will be a great way of asking questions and getting tips from other people." It started out okay with my first two postings and then got progressively worse, with critical comments and in-fighting becoming normalized. After a bit I just thought 'why am I doing this?' and just stopped posting and looking. Now I don't use Facebook at all on a daily basis.

I don't quite know what happened to social media in the last few years-- if it's the algorithm that has pushed people over the edge or if it's just what happens when you get a large concentration of human beings together in one place and expect them to act civil, or something else altogether (my best guess is corporate interest run amuck). It's a shame because I do see the potential for social media to be useful, but that use is just not there at the moment. It's just a big time wasting factory.

 

Social media is a disease, I'm glad I quit that.

 

All you need to do is go onto Reddit for 5 minutes . Fuck this , fuck that , fuck you . Has to be one of the most toxic social media platforms about that a majority just complacent about on a daily basis. Cup of coffee =Reddit , bored = Reddit all day long letting hate and negativity live in your mind rent free .

 

We are a small dust spec in the growing universe and the last thing I want to worry is about a stranger's opinion over an artificial world many humans. I just move on with my life and don't let it bring me down. This can be said with porn too, like we are celestial beings and we are wasting it on watching porn a lot. What is the point? Enjoy the true life in this universe, as sad as that may sound. Sorry.

 

Also exploited by suspense novelists. People actually are addicted to stress and then relief from stress, and pay good money for it.