"The Queen's death offered an opportunity to get loud and perform "outrage." It's so damn easy to do with social media."
This is the single greatest tragedy of the way we've decided to use social media. It's so easy to imagine a world where outrage wasn't the currency of social media. Where we rewarded compassion or sincerity or insight w…
"The Queen's death offered an opportunity to get loud and perform "outrage." It's so damn easy to do with social media."
This is the single greatest tragedy of the way we've decided to use social media. It's so easy to imagine a world where outrage wasn't the currency of social media. Where we rewarded compassion or sincerity or insight with our attention instead. Just imagine if Anya's tweet had just been quietly dismissed as the pointless vitriol it was.
I'd love to see some comprehensive research into why the internet seems to bring out our most negative qualities so much more than our positive ones.
It begins with The Joy To Annoy. Not limited to trolls. People tend to use lesser goads like "amusing" and "thanks for playing" that arouse anger.
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, though not the instigation so much as in being aroused to anger, something I work hard at suppressing now. Some things just annoy the hell out of me, like the entire "trans" fad, pomposity, neologisms, and certain patterns of debate.
About two years ago I started getting tired of being angry all the time. It's a hard habit to break.
"The Queen's death offered an opportunity to get loud and perform "outrage." It's so damn easy to do with social media."
This is the single greatest tragedy of the way we've decided to use social media. It's so easy to imagine a world where outrage wasn't the currency of social media. Where we rewarded compassion or sincerity or insight with our attention instead. Just imagine if Anya's tweet had just been quietly dismissed as the pointless vitriol it was.
I'd love to see some comprehensive research into why the internet seems to bring out our most negative qualities so much more than our positive ones.
It begins with The Joy To Annoy. Not limited to trolls. People tend to use lesser goads like "amusing" and "thanks for playing" that arouse anger.
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, though not the instigation so much as in being aroused to anger, something I work hard at suppressing now. Some things just annoy the hell out of me, like the entire "trans" fad, pomposity, neologisms, and certain patterns of debate.
About two years ago I started getting tired of being angry all the time. It's a hard habit to break.