> So, you're essentially relying on other people taking the toll on being on social media to keep yourself informed. No offence intended, but isn't this similar

> So, you're essentially relying on other people taking the toll on being on social media to keep yourself informed. No offence intended, but isn't this similarly selfish with being an antivaxxer? I.e. believing you have some sort of personal epiphany, while in reality you are just enjoying the benefit of everyone else being involved in a moderately risky activity? I should clarify - there was a little sarcasm in there. The massive bulk of stuff that 'breaks' the collective pressure barrier isn't stuff I consider important to know. I just end up hearing about whatever Trump said that was dumb lately and feel worse off for it occasionally. > Before the internet discussion topics would just come from the news (TV or printed). Nope. You can talk about ideas, life, experiences, all kindsa shit that doesn't come from media. 'Keeping up with the times' is a nice thing to do just a little bit but these days it's gotten way out of hand. This is just my opinion, of course. YMMV et al etc. The point here being that fewer and fewer people have headspace for that stuff and I dunno, I kinda think that sucks.