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I use Facebook. I can't help myself, it lets me see what people are up to, especially those that live far away. But it's a swamp of virtue-signalling, one-upm
by RickJWagner 8y ago
I use Facebook. I can't help myself, it lets me see what people are up to, especially those that live far away.
But it's a swamp of virtue-signalling, one-upmanship, and best-foot-forward deceptions. It's like high school all over again, except more so.
I wish it weren't available.
- kerng 8y agoOnce you step away from it long enough, you won't be missing it at all. I stopped posting anything 2+ years ago and then also stopped consuming content after the elections...
- wincy 8y agoI keep off Facebook but my wife is on there. It's distressing how many disaffected, childless early thirties millennials our age we've known committing suicide. It's sad and I don't really know what's going on, but wondering "I wonder what happened to such-and-such" then finding their memorial page is quite jarring and disheartening. It feels like so many people are desperately lonely, and our digital voyeurism with things like Facebook is NOT making it better.
- barberousse 8y agoOr high school has always been the "baseline" shared social model for all the different subgroups/subcultures in America.
- jklm 8y agoOne way to alleviate that is to defriend or unfollow (hide from news feed) those people who are engaging in one-upmanship, if you're not interested in that. If you want to only passively see what people are up to, this is a good way to do that without being audience to virtue-signalling. I've found that this is a good habit to work on for in-person relationships as well. Curate your company!