I think it really depends on what subreddits you frequent. Me personally, I find it a refreshingly fun place. Same with Twitter This is probably because I'm

I think it really depends on what subreddits you frequent. Me personally, I find it a refreshingly fun place. Same with Twitter This is probably because I'm focusing my participation on subs where the users are unified by a similar interest in an area of creative expression and participation. Follow controversy, anger or FUD and you'll just get sucked into it in a sort of meta way. Anger because of the anger, controversy because of the controversy, FUD because of the FUD.