I recently joined twitter (its been a while actually - close to 7 months) but I've now learned the hard way that unless you really work hard to find people that are not toxic etc - you will fall into this reactionary/constantly raging and reacting mindset that comes from twitter.

S*** is crazy fam - I had to try avoiding not responding to s*** that triggers me like dumbass discourse - You either become a twitter degenerate or you end up achieving self control like a buddhist monk - there aint no in between.

Do any of yall had a similar experience and if so, where do you fall into?
Twitter degen or buddist monk ?

that' actually not a long time at all on twitter lol.

dammn wtf - what you classify as a long time?

i’ve had an active twitter account for 11 years now

any form of social media that leans toward debates does this though unless its a solid community

that's why ktt is my favorite social media and even then I am trying to spend less time on here bc if i fall too much into the bs it can affect me doing other things during the day as well

music sxn is the only part of ktt that has a 'toxic; vibe to it and even then its mostly just bad faith actors, people who are seeking out beef to be part of

LMAO Twitter been around since 2006 and you think 7 months is "a while"

real

been on there since 2012

I miss Orkut tbh

Lmao yeah s***s been around since myspace days man

No one used that in the US

my pops has an ELITE og account stamped with an 09 joined date

had some latina baddies on it

I just view twitter & ig as entertainment platforms and I do enjoy them for the memes & stuff but i try not to be a big part of the core of them.

eventually if I get to a point where I start a business that benefits from a public social media presence then I might actually link my irl identity to a platform but as of now I've never posted a pic of myself on social media and there's only maybe 4 people that know what my social platform handles are bc i'm anonymous on them.

even before i got into the meditation & mindfulness self help stuff i'm into nowadays I've always been antsy about being known by strangers online

All social networks hijack your impulses. Not really that difficult to see that.

what's your favorite social media grandpa?

Only platform that gets consistent usage is Reddit. Other than that, none. Maybe Snapchat if you count that. Primarily just use it to talk to close friends instead of texting them.

I'm starting to push 30. Turning 27 in about a month. The last few years have really hit the "starting to outgrow 95% of the content that's pushed algorithmically on social networks".

you got some bad b****es on snapchat?

If you stay off 'For You' it's pretty easy to avoid this. my actual feed is just s*** that I like and I don't ever experience the fake outrage bullshit unless someone makes a thread about it on here.

its literally impossible to avoid this on reddit though, thats far worse imo

god damm - that "for you" bullshit just seems like its designed to piss me off - s*** is actually insane

For You is really a bad place to be. Click on the first tweet and it is flooded with hardcore racist discussion. Then you realize it is almost every post in there. They just push whatever they want 😭

Not really. I usually just text women that I meet. My snapchat is just basically for my really good friends.

Dead Internet Theory.