[jjulius]

This. I've been saying it for years. You can trace the decline back a couple of decades.

All of these threads and comments people throw out about how "social media" is bad misses the forest for the trees. The Internet has put us, broadly speaking, in the position we are now. It's fucking garbage and it's ruining our ability to communicate and function together. The biggest impact most of us can make is right outside our front door, with those who we directly interact with throughout our fays. Instead, we'd rather argue about the world's problems online. Being aware of what's happening is great, don't get me wrong, but yelling into the void past one another is not how things get solved, and that's all this shit seems to be now.

I might get downvoted to hell for this, but I stand by it - the Internet was a mistake.

Edit: I'm all about people's faces these days. https://youtu.be/mvCKSuPq8o8?si=WAQ4ltArdjDPpt2u

Edit 2: I guess I'll put my money where my mouth is and make these my last posts.

[throwaway94275]

Pay up. You made a post after this. :)