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Rec'd on 📱 for the less chronically online people here

Most of the time someone is going to tell me the latest news, or meme, or they're going to show me their social media feed, and i realize that after a while of not digging into things and just letting the information come to me that i was probably more in the know of what was going on then when i was constantly keeping up with it and searching for it And i found the connection of letting people share these things with me gave way to more authentic social relationships, as a conversation was able to be had. I didn't know about something, they did, they told me, i asked questions, we laughed as i didn't get it or they explained some intricate back story as to why something came to be and we just talked. Which i would have missed out on if i knew the same thing they did And we'd go back to scrolling.

@confused_crisis

Mar 30, 2025

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I heavily agree...Another thing I wanna add (After like a week or so of deleting social media) is that when you replace social media with longer form content like webizines, blogs and such, you often have more context on what is going on compared to people who solely get news from like twitter or tiktok. I noticed how social media only shows you some parts of what is going on and it is mainly from shallow perspectives that lack nuance, which means you don't fully grasp the news until you actually take time and read through articles and blogposts.

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