Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[el-remmen]

I have decided that instead of using the 25 minutes I have between dropping my kid at daycare and starting work for day to doomscroll and set up my misery for the day over coffee, I am just gonna play a video game instead.

 

[TiQuinn]

I have decided that instead of using the 25 minutes I have between dropping my kid at daycare and starting work for day to doomscroll and set up my misery for the day over coffee, I am just gonna play a video game instead.

I started a conscious effort to stop doomscrolling on social media and it's amazing to me:

1. How much you still are able to keep up with the important news.
2. How stupid the little stuff starts to sound if and when you do become aware of it.
3. How many people I followed for one particular reason who now just kind of contribute to a general sense of misery.

 

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I started a conscious effort to stop doomscrolling on social media and it's amazing to me:

1. How much you still are able to keep up with the important news.
2. How stupid the little stuff starts to sound if and when you do become aware of it.
3. How many people I followed for one particular reason who now just kind of contribute to a general sense of misery.

I love how i have my twitter feed set up with following Zoos, and other animals. I get to see animals being cute and silly with no doom scrolling.

 

[CleverNickName]

I started a conscious effort to stop doomscrolling on social media and it's amazing to me:

1. How much you still are able to keep up with the important news.
2. How stupid the little stuff starts to sound if and when you do become aware of it.
3. How many people I followed for one particular reason who now just kind of contribute to a general sense of misery.

Last year, I started reducing my time spent on social media as a whole, and closing accounts whenever possible. (The hardest to let go of was Facebook, since it's the platform my family back home uses to keep in touch.) As of last Thanksgiving, I had gone from multiple platforms on multiple devices, to just EN World and YouTube on my personal computer, and my company-required MS Teams account on my work computer. Nothing on my phone at all. I'll occasionally peek in on Reddit, but I almost always regret doing so.

I don't want to oversell it, but: I sleep better, I'm less distracted, my temper is more "even." Things that once made me angry or frustrated just don't bother me as much. I'm writing more, I'm playing more video games, and doing little projects around the house that had started piling up. I used to scoff at my phone's weekly report ("You used your phone X minutes this week" or whatever) and tell myself there's no way that number could be right, but it was all true: I have literal hours of my life back now.

My annual physical is coming up in a few weeks, and I'm curious if anything has changed.

 

[The Firebird]

I started a conscious effort to stop doomscrolling on social media and it's amazing to me:

1. How much you still are able to keep up with the important news.
2. How stupid the little stuff starts to sound if and when you do become aware of it.
3. How many people I followed for one particular reason who now just kind of contribute to a general sense of misery.

For me it helps to have other things going on in my life. When I have loads of free time it can be hard to avoid negative social media use. When I'm busy, it doesn't even occur to me.

 

[RealAlHazred]

One day I will play in a group where everyone, or at least a majority of the other players, will pronounce my character's name correctly.
Today is not that day.

Whatever you say, Gnarlyg Ninja!

 

[RealAlHazred]

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Even more obnoxious:

 

[dragoner]

Even more obnoxious:
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TBH that pizza doesn't look too bad.

 

[dragoner]

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I know someone who's wife is not a native English speaker, and she asked him: "Where is the any key?"