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Is everything the worst?
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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I'm not saying it's social media, but it's social media. You're connected to negativity 24/7. The algorithm feeds on negativity because that is what makes us stay on there.
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I don't want to dismiss the facts. There are terrible things going on but overall we're living our best lives at the same time.
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You are dismissing the facts, then.
You could only truly believe this if you're a financially stable, healthy, gainfully employed, cis white man. Because for everyone else in the States at least, life is getting harder. You can cite all the statistics you like about the globe, but that's not relevant to what people experience in their own lives.
And more importantly, the things that people are depressed about are the things that are getting worse, and on track to keep getting worse. A video about statistics in 2007 isn't accounting for what we know in 2024 is coming in the future. The outlook is far more grim now.
People have been saying this about social media and the news for a long long time, and every single time they fail to take the context into account. People said this in 2016, too. "Your anxiety is just the media riling you up". Then the anxiety ended up being a very accurate thing to feel, and in the years after, the real world events caused negative effects on people's lives.
The world is not a TV show. What happens in the news, what people talk about on social media, no matter how negative it skews, those things happen in real life, not a vacuum. Many of them affect you in ways you can't even comprehend, and many of them affect you in very obvious ways that some people just seem to want to overlook.