Clawmaster wrote:
Message boarding can work a bit, but visuals are needed to fully engage the limbic system, that is why Tik Tok and Insta are so big.
Try not "following" a younger person, or not "liking" a social media post, it is like you slapped them in the face.
There is a definite emotional response to the visual and audio stimulation people get from having people like them or follow them on social media.
Often have my staff say, "you don't follow me on Insta", to which I say, "I don't have Insta", they look at me like they just have encountered a Wooly Mammoth and simply cannot fathom that someone would not be on the social media platform they value.
Seems there is a bit of that happening here, maybe more of an escape from reality for most of us, a place to decompress after a stressful day at work, or destress before heading off for a 12-14 hour day at work, or quickly find info on the teams that allows us to decompress. You do often wonder why some posters choose particular hills to die on, but you get a different perspective on issues, so an opportunity to learn if you choose to learn, or get out your digital trowel and dig in and protect your ideological trench, the odd challenges to meet up and fight are silly.
yes claw this is all true. when i'm on baseball reddit and make an unpopular post about certain teams, i get responses like 'oh you shouldn't have posted that, you're gonna get a lot of downvotes'. my response is i don't give a shit about downvotes. how is that going to affect me or my life.
Then I realized that upvote/downvote shit does affect a lot of people's lives. I guess since they don't talk to people in real life and spend their life conversing to people online, those upvotes and downvotes are like someone in real life agreeing or disagree with you. but 100x more because they don't have that human eye to eye body language interaction. those downvotes to those people are like if you're a teenager and getting rejected by a girl in real life.