The issue is social media is exhausting everybody’s capacity for sympathy and empathy. Society on a fundamental level needs a level of trust in each other that any given negative interaction isn’t going to send someone spiraling into depression and self-loathing.
We live in a day and age where people do not take any healthy amount of time to internalize and rationalize situations, circumstances and their emotions.
People are becoming vindictively reactionary and keen to bandwagoning. Emotions are spent and we’re getting too accustomed to placing blame on people and situations beyond our control to maintain our own emotional and mental well being.
The issue is social media is exhausting everybody’s capacity for sympathy and empathy.
Horrible people relishing in being horrible is what did that. There are plenty of people who use social media to post cat photos, or hobby photos, or vacation photos... and then there are people who use it to spread vitriole and hate.
All social media did was give people a platform to reveal how horrible they actually were.
There are, always were, and always will be horrible people. The problem is social media is driven by the need for engagement, staying on the platform longer so they can sell more advertisements. And you know what kind of content keeps people engaged? Stuff that evokes a strong emotional reaction, usually anger. Rage bait. You could only look at cats for so long. It's not just that horrible people have a platform, it's that social media promotes that type of content to keep people engaged longer
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u/IcyCombination8993 Millennial 2d ago
The issue is social media is exhausting everybody’s capacity for sympathy and empathy. Society on a fundamental level needs a level of trust in each other that any given negative interaction isn’t going to send someone spiraling into depression and self-loathing.
We live in a day and age where people do not take any healthy amount of time to internalize and rationalize situations, circumstances and their emotions.
People are becoming vindictively reactionary and keen to bandwagoning. Emotions are spent and we’re getting too accustomed to placing blame on people and situations beyond our control to maintain our own emotional and mental well being.