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6 June 2020 13:59It's "deal with my instinct to run away and hide when confronted by important things in my inbox" time
*downs more coffee*
*downs more coffee*
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3 June 2020 12:53It's just kinda Difficult that, at times of great stress, our need to just curl up on the internet and refresh twitter looking at photos of wildflowers and cats escalates; and our willpower for doing anything else just goes; but when you try and do that, that very same "I'm going to curl up and hide" place is absolutely filled with the things you're trying to run away from.
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3 June 2020 12:24Between the news from America, news about Covid and news about the climate, I'm really struggling atm, and its bringing home to me yet another benefit of older, slower social media. It's so much easier to curate your experience here, or on traditional forums,or (admittedly) on Discord - which also has these qualities of, strong gates and intentional curation.
People talk about how "the internet IS real life nowadays", but that's not wholly true. The experience I have hanging out in a room with friends isn't stuttered with advertising and political posters. It's mostly just chilling and talking about daft nonsense (not that I've chilled in a room with an actual friend since, like...October...), and talking about favourite brands and concerning news isn't absent from the conversation, but the tone is very different. Like, the...an activist poster or an activist graphic, it's attention-grabbing, it's loud, it's angry/impassioned/hopeful, it's quite a Lot, it's advertising, you know? It's designed to yank you about.
And I don't want that, not all the time, in all my social spaces, and not unintentionally, peppered amongst my Delicate Photos Of Wildflowers And Bees blogs and my Horrible Things Happening To Scuba Divers blogs and all that, and most importantly, as omnipresent when I try to interact with my online friends.
I like dreamwidth so very much.
People talk about how "the internet IS real life nowadays", but that's not wholly true. The experience I have hanging out in a room with friends isn't stuttered with advertising and political posters. It's mostly just chilling and talking about daft nonsense (not that I've chilled in a room with an actual friend since, like...October...), and talking about favourite brands and concerning news isn't absent from the conversation, but the tone is very different. Like, the...an activist poster or an activist graphic, it's attention-grabbing, it's loud, it's angry/impassioned/hopeful, it's quite a Lot, it's advertising, you know? It's designed to yank you about.
And I don't want that, not all the time, in all my social spaces, and not unintentionally, peppered amongst my Delicate Photos Of Wildflowers And Bees blogs and my Horrible Things Happening To Scuba Divers blogs and all that, and most importantly, as omnipresent when I try to interact with my online friends.
I like dreamwidth so very much.
