Fear of the social web

[starseerdrgn]

Social media scares me. People are quick to attack, and very slow to apologize, if they do so at all. It has become a fight to even say anything on Twitter and Facebook, for fear of a random catastrophic backlash that would trigger a lot of stress. I have even removed my journal feeds from automatically posting to social networks, as I would rather not have to deal with people suddenly attacking me for something they had misunderstood.

Social media also drains me of my desire to socialize these days. On top of the information overload, I am constantly bombarded with political and social things that not only do not affect me, but serve nothing aside from bringing down my mood. I do not really want to know about Donald Trump, or the latest tragedy...I have enough tragedy in my personal life as it is. I do not need my mood dragged into the darkness that I constantly have to climb out of.

Humans have created a culture of "share everything", but very few gain anything from all of that information being shared. Many treat it as if it is the most sacred thing they have, which is rather depressing given how many of those same people treat the concept of life itself.

In some ways, Twitter and the like have returned me to a low level depression. What I need to do is keep myself from returning there time and time again.

Comments

[zetasyanthis]

I feel you there. Been in a similar spot and though I still use many of those services, I've started to be really aggressive about culling sources of negativity. Been doing the same with the news feeds too. :/

[starseerdrgn]

I need to do the same with my own news feeds as well. I would like to focus more on blogs and technology news feeds, and try to remove all of the Tumblr feeds that turn into political (correctness) feeds eventually.