A reminder that anger is addictive, and social media fuels it.
Engagement driven algorithms that are let to run wild inherently pick up on this, and start feeding you anger inducing content. Even non engagement driven algorithms often end up doing this by accident.
And when we’re angry, we think less clearly and empathetically, and we lash out and say more than we mean and make hurtful comments and generalizations.
That sparks anger in the person we’re conversing with, which tends to create a feedback loop, also known as a fight.
If you actually want to have fun, engaging, conversations with people different then you, and learn something from them, it’s a constant exercise in calmness, deescalation, and nuance, not things the internet trains us well for.
tl;dr: humans like to think we’re highly evolved beings, but at the end of the day we’re all basically these cats:
A reminder that anger is addictive, and social media fuels it.
Engagement driven algorithms that are let to run wild inherently pick up on this, and start feeding you anger inducing content. Even non engagement driven algorithms often end up doing this by accident.
And when we’re angry, we think less clearly and empathetically, and we lash out and say more than we mean and make hurtful comments and generalizations.
That sparks anger in the person we’re conversing with, which tends to create a feedback loop, also known as a fight.
If you actually want to have fun, engaging, conversations with people different then you, and learn something from them, it’s a constant exercise in calmness, deescalation, and nuance, not things the internet trains us well for.
tl;dr: humans like to think we’re highly evolved beings, but at the end of the day we’re all basically these cats: