Something was definitely in the water this morning.
I wake up, grab my coffee, make the classic mistake of checking Facebook while my brain’s still soft and undefended.
Big fucking error.
It’s like I stepped into some alternate dimension where everyone decided today was the day to settle scores and flex their intellectual superiority. People dunking on each other left and right. Everyone trying to out clever, out moralise, out everything each other in the comments.
The energy was so toxic I could practically taste it through the screen.
Wild thing was…
I almost got sucked in. I was about to type a response to some bullshit that wouldn’t matter tomorrow or next week.
Then I caught myself.
What the hell was I doing?
This is exactly how they get you. You scroll past three reasonable posts, then boom…
Someone says something that makes your blood pressure spike, and suddenly you’re ready to engage in digital combat with strangers who probably agree with you 80% of the time but are arguing about the 20% like it’s life or death.
Social media turns everyone into their worst selves. Reasonable people become keyboard warriors. Thoughtful individuals become reactive assholes. Everyone’s performing their outrage for an audience that’s performing their outrage right back.
A dude who I liked in my space has also unfriended me cause I posted a meme he didn’t agree with, AFTER he decided to tell me about what country I’m IN and can’t comment on other countries cause I don’t live there (Even though I have got friends and family that live there) Yes, very sad. Anyway…
So I did the only sensible thing I could’ve done that day.
I yeeted myself right off that platform before I could get dragged into the mud.
The algorithm feeds on conflict. Every angry reaction and the like.
Na, today I just wanted to chill.
I wasn’t about the digital self harm for the day.
It’s also weird that when you log off of those places for the day. That your mental health and productivity seem to shoot up massively. Who woulda thought?
Social media doesn’t have to be your whole personality.
The ones who are chronically online, genuinely need to go touch some grass and read a good book.
Stephen Walker.