What’s on your mind?

[PandaPunch]

What is on my mind is how much of our modern world is the exception, not the norm. Our modern day to day experiences are filled with so much information and input that our ancestors wouldn't have had throughout the course of their whole lives. Relationships these days come off as transactional, you can go online and see anything you want, when before the modern era you'd be lucky to see one at all.

In the times before the internet, information traveled generally traveled much more slowly and people had a lot more time to think about things before coming to a conclusion on what they thought about them. I feel like a lot of people these days are overloaded with information and emotional energy. Common sense, taking time to think about things, and carrying one's self with a sense of purpose seems like a rarity.

Maybe I just feel like an old soul.

I ended up reducing so much of my digital noise in the last 7 months or so, now I have to somewhat learn how to be bored. Now I can look at a Youtube feed and think to myself, "None of this is super interesting at all" to almost every video.

I do agree with people being overloaded but at the exact same time, they can make a different choice. They don't have to use Internet content 24/7 to drown out the silence as they eat or use the toilet, that's a decision they made. They also don't have to engage with the same angry content by watching it or commenting on it either. After this year, I've started to come around to the idea that when talking about people who spend a ton of time online engaging with unproductive spaces, it seems like people either enjoy the overwhelmingly negative spaces or at least tolerate it because they think there's no safe space for them either online or offline.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

I ended up reducing so much of my digital noise in the last 7 months or so, now I have to somewhat learn how to be bored. Now I can look at a Youtube feed and think to myself, "None of this is super interesting at all" to almost every video.

I do agree with people being overloaded but at the exact same time, they can make a different choice. They don't have to use Internet content 24/7 to drown out the silence as they eat or use the toilet, that's a decision they made. They also don't have to engage with the same angry content by watching it or commenting on it either. After this year, I've started to come around to the idea that when talking about people who spend a ton of time online engaging with unproductive spaces, it seems like people either enjoy the overwhelmingly negative spaces or at least tolerate it because they think there's no safe space for them either online or offline.

In the past few months I have ended up removing myself from various communities I was involved in due to overwhelming toxicity. I have no idea why I put up with it as long as I did - as I don't find myself missing those kind of interactions one bit. Going forward I will be staying far away from toxic groups.

What you say is a better way to put it than I did.