When I’ve stepped away from social media in the past it helped a lot. I got drawn back in because the sports success of my school made Facebook a lot more fun..

When I’ve stepped away from social media in the past it helped a lot. I got drawn back in because the sports success of my school made Facebook a lot more fun...but I’ve rapidly unfollowed everything on my timeline that is remotely “news like” and it seems to be working. Nobody has the emotional capacity to handle the anger of every cause from every person they’ve ever met. I saw one meme come through claiming that choosing to stay out of politics was a sign of “privilege” but immediately realized that it’s the exact opposite. Until this new world we lived in happened, every person I’ve ever met didn’t have the ability to broadcast their politics to me unless I saw them in person...and we chose to talk about it one on one like civilized adults.