Frequency of Social Media Use

[lpdsvm]

I have never participated or created any posts outside this forum this actively. I didn't try to be social a lot in real life either. Reddit almost never. Other platforms as well - all 1/10 active. So I think I am getting closer to my final days and I feel it and post a lot only here. I am not sure if anyone else does something similar. I think it's another sign I am going to CTB soon or at least I interpret things that way.

 

[Dejected 55]

Social media for the most part is very anti-social.

When I was a kid I was more shy and introverted, and I turned to early local dial-up bulletin boards for communicating with people around the world. It was better then because the only people really online were other people like me who weren't connecting with people near them. Somewhere just before the Internet took off as a public thing, people started flocking online from all walks of life... which meant all the people who didn't like you in real life were now able to not like you in your safe space online and very quickly online world became diluted with the same real-world nonsense only worse... because online people will say shit anonymously that they would be afraid would get their ass kicked in real life.

Social media is not at all aptly named... maybe it is ironically named? Because it is killing real life socializing and online is so fake it isn't even worth discussing. People don't even know how to pretend to be kind or have manners anymore. It is way harder to navigate society than it used to be when I shied away from it. As an adult I wanted to make real connections, but everyone seems to have forgotten how to do that and only live online in fake bubbles.

I was reluctantly on social media more until a couple of years ago when I ditched it all cold turkey. It's just not worth the aggravation and depression inducing experience.

 

[lpdsvm]

Social media for the most part is very anti-social.

When I was a kid I was more shy and introverted, and I turned to early local dial-up bulletin boards for communicating with people around the world. It was better then because the only people really online were other people like me who weren't connecting with people near them. Somewhere just before the Internet took off as a public thing, people started flocking online from all walks of life... which meant all the people who didn't like you in real life were now able to not like you in your safe space online and very quickly online world became diluted with the same real-world nonsense only worse... because online people will say shit anonymously that they would be afraid would get their ass kicked in real life.

Social media is not at all aptly named... maybe it is ironically named? Because it is killing real life socializing and online is so fake it isn't even worth discussing. People don't even know how to pretend to be kind or have manners anymore. It is way harder to navigate society than it used to be when I shied away from it. As an adult I wanted to make real connections, but everyone seems to have forgotten how to do that and only live online in fake bubbles.

I was reluctantly on social media more until a couple of years ago when I ditched it all cold turkey. It's just not worth the aggravation and depression inducing experience.

I just couldn't even discuss basic issues (how to do this and that or add something to threads). I didn't feel like it. Maybe it dates back to a moment when someone tried to insult my intelligence by making a joke. It was my first comment and that guy didn't know I was a minor back then. I don't even care but it could affect me in a way, but I could realize that it was just like my crap environment back then.

And yes, I also observe some people who are disrespectful online. I observe how some of them change and one of them has a YouTube channel and each video has under 10 people for months-years where he is just blasting out or complains and diminished certain people. They change the way they look. They get banned everywhere. They go through bad things due to depression. I even get them but I don't get their insults. So I don't really care about them being disrespectful. I spent time to see what they are like in real life.