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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OblivionDrive" data-source="post: 8031778" data-attributes="member: 7020101">Sure, there's something to be said for removing potential stressors from your life. I get that aspect of it, assuming you find the stress of social media to be more of a drawback than any benefits. It puts a lot of stressful stuff in front of your face that many folks (including myself) would rather not deal with. That's not my point. It's just the broad blanket statements that NOTHING good comes of it for anyone that I have issue with. Hence my wondering if it's just a flip snarky statement or something they truly believe.I mean it's only tangentially related to the topic, really. Just more me musing out loud.None of that was created by social media. All of it existed and happened well before the modern version of the internet was a thing. Social media just allows stuff to spread faster due to the speed of access but it's by no means the cause.And in the same post you point out places where social media has been used for good. The men who killed Ahmaud Arbery didn't get arrested until the video of the moments leading up to it made it to social media and started making the rounds. The woman in the park with the dog who just tried to get Christian Cooper potentially killed by the police by making a false claim that he was threatening her life would have walked free if he hadn't recorded and uploaded the video to social media. Now she's facing charges.People find their significant others on social media these days. Lifelong friends. Support and understanding from similar folks when their own home situations are dangerous or unsupportive. Yes, it can be used for bad purposes, but so can literally any tool. Erasing the good it's been responsible for is ridiculously reductive and short-sighted imo.Anyway, we're getting off topic. Critical Role, yeah? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="👍" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" title="Thumbs up    :thumbsup:" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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