Fruitbat
Master Don Juan
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Sorry this isn’t a post on women so mods please move if you don’t want it here.
Just realised how much time I waste on social media. Hour after hour, it can take over your life.
The world has changed recently. Social media is 99% “I stand against racism/sexism/whatever”
It’s almost entirely virtue signalling.
Do these people realise that anyone above average IQ can see what it is? That status updates make no difference other than say “look how great I am”
I find now it’s going pretty dark. It’s kind of against anything traditional. Traditional family, patriotism, even just basic decency, now everything has to be “challenged” or women having to talk about their cellulite/bladder weakness/woman’s odour. It just has to “challenge” basic things we take for granted.
Anyway, I want to turn it off, but:
- I need some sort of link with friends. I actually quite like sharing the odd family picture or seeing what my pals are doing.
- Poltically, if people like me leave the space, nobody can challenge their nonsense and one day, even though I’ve turned it off, I have the feeling I will get “yes you now have a £200 tax for equality. It’s all over Twitter” or some kind of bat**** liberal policy gets implemented because I wasn’t there to challenge it!
Any perspectives on this conundrum on how we stay involved in life but get the poison of social media out of our lives?
Just realised how much time I waste on social media. Hour after hour, it can take over your life.
The world has changed recently. Social media is 99% “I stand against racism/sexism/whatever”
It’s almost entirely virtue signalling.
Do these people realise that anyone above average IQ can see what it is? That status updates make no difference other than say “look how great I am”
I find now it’s going pretty dark. It’s kind of against anything traditional. Traditional family, patriotism, even just basic decency, now everything has to be “challenged” or women having to talk about their cellulite/bladder weakness/woman’s odour. It just has to “challenge” basic things we take for granted.
Anyway, I want to turn it off, but:
- I need some sort of link with friends. I actually quite like sharing the odd family picture or seeing what my pals are doing.
- Poltically, if people like me leave the space, nobody can challenge their nonsense and one day, even though I’ve turned it off, I have the feeling I will get “yes you now have a £200 tax for equality. It’s all over Twitter” or some kind of bat**** liberal policy gets implemented because I wasn’t there to challenge it!
Any perspectives on this conundrum on how we stay involved in life but get the poison of social media out of our lives?
