Other People’s Anger
Take a breath. Those online insults might make you laugh.
Facebook went live in 2004 essentially fulfilling the grand promise of social media, which has roots back to the advent of Morse Code in 1844. What took two centuries to develop needed just two decades to implode.
This is not to suggest that social media is going away. Always on, always connected, and always dissing strangers is our new normal. But people have limits. Nearly half of Facebook users have considered leaving the site. About as many have had second thoughts with Twitter — and that’s according to data gathered before Elon Musk agreed to buy the company in a deal that sent more folks, and some notable star power, packing.
Cutting social media is like cutting carbs — easy in the morning but then you find yourself reaching for the cheesecake after dinner.
Considering leaving a platform and canceling your account are, of course, two different things. Cutting social media is like cutting carbs — easy in the morning but then you find yourself reaching for the cheesecake after dinner. It’s a tough diet because social media still has a lot going for it: birthday wishes and photos, renewed connections, unacquainted folks coming together for a worthy cause like humanitarian aid to…