Does social media attempt to ostracize us?

[M_E_S]

I'm increasingly seeing posts that actively encourage to remove "negative people" from their lives. But the descriptors used to define such people are often characteristic of those suffering from depression, anxiety or perhaps just aware of the reality of their own existence.

It seems like another societally-induced high to remove or avoid any unpleasantness that disrupts the dominant distracted narrative that keeps people asleep.

 

[noname223]

I'm increasingly seeing posts that actively encourage to remove "negative people" from their lives. But the descriptors used to define such people are often characteristic of those suffering from depression, anxiety or perhaps just aware of the reality of their own existence.

It seems like another societally-induced high to remove or avoid any unpleasantness that disrupts the dominant distracted narrative that keeps people asleep.

Social media is controlled by billionaires. It is used to manipulate the people in favor of politicans that make rich people richer. This is why so many influencers helped the Trump campaign. The people get brainwashed. I don't say Kamala would have been a candidate for the poor. Certainly not. But she clearly was the lesser of two evils.

And most of them are now too ashamed to admit voting for Trump was a grave mistake.

In my country (and I think in others) there is something perfidious. Social media shall make people cynical about politics. You shall get the feeling your vote and voice does not matter anyway. And in some ways in a two party system getting change is pretty difficult. Even if there is not outright AfD (equivalent to Trump more or less) propaganda by some influencers. First and foremost the people should lose trust in the system. The people shall become anxious to lose their status, their wealth, their freedom, the feeling of security. This is how populists get you. Anxious people are easiy to persuade for narratives that let you kick the people at the bottom of society instead of questioning the actual elites. They search ffor scapegoats. And surprise it is not the billionares that get targeted. And the people have not learned from the Third Reich. Instead the right-wing extreme parties have learned hwo to use the system in a way to further their agenda.

 

[fedup1982]

I'm increasingly seeing posts that actively encourage to remove "negative people" from their lives. But the descriptors used to define such people are often characteristic of those suffering from depression, anxiety or perhaps just aware of the reality of their own existence.

It seems like another societally-induced high to remove or avoid any unpleasantness that disrupts the dominant distracted narrative that keeps people asleep.

Exactly! I don't know what is driving the collective behaviour but the force is fking strong.

Any time my gf and I have a problem and one of us vents on social media the overwhelming response is "dump their sorry asses" even though we've been together 12 years, both have mental health problems, and most of the time are happy together, were a good fit.

For a while I chalked it down to it just being young people that don't understand commitment, either just because they're young, or live in a modern world where it's too easy to meet lots of people and ghost them because there isn't the same emotional investment anymore, or maybe it's influence of some foreign culture that just seems alien but I don't believe it's that. Idk what it is tbh

 

[Pluto]