I'm thinking about whether I should stop using social media entirely.
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I'm thinking about whether I should stop using social media entirely.
I've largely selected for following decent people here, but going through the feed still feels like a firehose of despair and horror. Because, well, the world seems to be like that right now.
But when I go outside, or even just read a "normal" news media feed, that's not how it feels at all.
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There is a lot to worry about. War, AI, climate disaster, looming economic turmoil, booming inequality, neo-fascism. And, well, those are things that decent people (by my standards) do worry about. But if there are a lot of people sharing their legitimate worries, you get the firehose effect.
And then - at least for me - it's so easy to forget that the leaves on the trees are so lovely this time of year, and nobody has managed to get the birds to pay rent yet.
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Or, put another way:
I am terribly depressed and anxious, and I'm not sure this is helping.
Pulling the plug on social media won't make all that go away - but nothing else I can do will, either.
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@datarama you're wrong about one thing, leaving social media and the constant barrage of worries WILL help, not having constant triggers to the bad place will be good for you, I left social media for a year and had nothing but good effects
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@cursedsql Oh, that's not what I meant. It would probably be good *for me*.
What I meant is that it doesn't make climate disaster, war, AI and fascist death cults go away.
(I never had a Twitter and fedi is currently the only social media I use.)
