Venting People are way too online nowadays and it sucks

[miles-away]

I try to block as much social media as possible. It's a time sink designed to keep you addicted and angry 24/7. It kind of sucks that everyone now is permanently online and will spends hours mindlessly scrolling through tiktok or Twitter. Just consuming the dregs of humanity everyday.

And its fucking depressing and weird to see 40, 50, 60 year old politicians and celebrities on Twitter all day and repeating shit you have to be chronically online to understand. It's weird to see my 61 year old mother decide to stay inside all day and just consume mindless twitter slop all day.

I feel like I'm coming across as a pretentious twat. But I thinks it's bad that society is now structured in a way that you have to be on Twitter or Instagram constantly to understand what's going on in society. I didn't know about the Sydney Sweeney Jean controversy until Trump started to talk about it. And it's concerning that stupid Twitter drama is now national fucking news.

Idk. I don't know why more people aren't fatigued by the internet and the constant onslaught of media and memes and news it spews out on an hourly basis. I'm gen z and I fucking sick of it after living with it for so long.

 

[Alpacachino]

It depends. My mother grew up without the Internet. Didn't know how to use a phone. She was using a dumb phone just for making calls and nothing else. For her birthday seven years ago, I got her a nice smart phone. She fell in love with it and now she can watch pictures of her grandkids on WhatsApp and all of that stuff, make Internet phone calls, browse YouTube and post comments . Learn cooking recipes.She, however, doesn't have Facebook, Instagram, any of that stuff.

She absolutely loves the phone and spends a good amount of time online but she's definitely not all day on it.Switching to that phone really changed her life for the better. But yeah, spending too much time online is just bad for you like doing too much of anyone thing is.