the impact is really up to you and how thick is your skin, whether you are getting angry/scared when reading the news or not news through friends work only if

the impact is really up to you and how thick is your skin, whether you are getting angry/scared when reading the news or not news through friends work only if you have many local friends and not friends scattered across the world, so they won't have much useful news for your day to day life and these days I try to avoid small talk about news with local people, because almost everything is way too controversial unless you agree with MSM propaganda