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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9642107" data-attributes="member: 18">I think this is often overstated, but it's definitely true social media has made this much more of an issue, because people can now basically customize themselves into getting fed stuff they know will offend them. Just look at how much Twitter/X has dropped off, usage-wise, since many people left for Bluesky, because the posters there have largely lost the people they used to delight in being offended by. This has impacted the &quot;U SHOULD BE OFFENDED!!!&quot; kind of news as well, as they can no longer easily dig up some jokey Twitter post with 3 likes by some guy with 50 followers and claim &quot;THIS IS WHAT [insert group they want to attack] ACTUALLY THINK!!!&quot;.Bluesky lately has kind of had the reverse too as lists of &quot;people to follow&quot; often included some er... edgy posters, and a lot of very uh... &quot;middle of the road&quot; people who joined in the last three-four months follow those lists, and then get offended by the edgy posters, and instead of unfollowing, they start attempting to attack the edgy posters and continue to follow them.(Personally I don't post on either as it's bad enough that I waste time posting on here! I know I'm an addict and some drugs are too strong! But I at least have the sense that, if someone is twit who keeps annoying me and nothing else, I unfollow!)Sure and that's why we have a lot of different terminology for it and people take very different views on what exactly a lie is. Which is why I don't like &quot;gaslighting&quot;, a specific and very malicious behaviour being used to mean almost any kind of lying at all, which is how a lot of people use it now.For example, I have a friend who thinks repeating anything that is false, even unknowingly, is &quot;lying&quot;. I would say that's an extreme and somewhat unreasonable view myself, but I get the perspective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9642107, member: 18"] I think this is often overstated, but it's definitely true social media has made this much more of an issue, because people can now basically customize themselves into getting fed stuff they know will offend them. Just look at how much Twitter/X has dropped off, usage-wise, since many people left for Bluesky, because the posters there have largely lost the people they used to delight in being offended by. This has impacted the "U SHOULD BE OFFENDED!!!" kind of news as well, as they can no longer easily dig up some jokey Twitter post with 3 likes by some guy with 50 followers and claim "THIS IS WHAT [insert group they want to attack] ACTUALLY THINK!!!". Bluesky lately has kind of had the reverse too as lists of "people to follow" often included some er... edgy posters, and a lot of very uh... "middle of the road" people who joined in the last three-four months follow those lists, and then get offended by the edgy posters, and instead of unfollowing, they start attempting to attack the edgy posters and continue to follow them. (Personally I don't post on either as it's bad enough that I waste time posting on here! I know I'm an addict and some drugs are too strong! But I at least have the sense that, if someone is twit who keeps annoying me and nothing else, I unfollow!) Sure and that's why we have a lot of different terminology for it and people take very different views on what exactly a lie is. Which is why I don't like "gaslighting", a specific and very malicious behaviour being used to mean almost any kind of lying at all, which is how a lot of people use it now. For example, I have a friend who thinks repeating anything that is false, even unknowingly, is "lying". I would say that's an extreme and somewhat unreasonable view myself, but I get the perspective. [/QUOTE]

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