Submitted by HowMyDictates t3_yfztiq in technology
snap-erection t1_iu6xsae wrote
I genuinely feel like the whole internet and now media is in some Eternal September mode now. And it's because the human brain only tolerates a certain amount of negativity (of certain types, within context) per day, and is overwhelmed when it keeps happening. Now most people, and I mean like on the order of 90% or more, are decent and innocuous. Some are edgy and some are real pathetic scum who seemingly only live to make others angry. Now with the internet though, especially with how engagement works, it's not that hard to find 1000 people in a population of hundreds of millions who are complete drop dead fucking assholes whose every expression is an insult to the human experience. But if you had to personally deal with 1000 complete cunts in one day, or every other day, you would feel completely overwhelmed right? That's what I find modern living is so full of. Just too many people, and too many negative experiences just based on the fact that a small percentage of a huge number is still a pretty big number for an individual.
Anyway that's why I can relate to why fighting this type of dirt on social media platforms is such an exhausting, losing battle. It's really hard to do properly, and it doesn't actually make money. Not directly anyway. The best way to fight it is with good education that doesn't produce this many shitheads. That or make the internet hard to use again so that idiots aren't on there anymore.
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