re: I promise y’all’s lives would be better if you just shut social media/news off.

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I promise y’all’s lives would be better if you just shut social media/news off.

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and yet you logged into TD (a social media platform) and clicked "start new topic" and proceeded to post......

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Twitter is the ultimate social media cancer. Its ridiculous.

You just have to remember a large part of the country is censored there, so you're basically getting a caricature of life

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Twitter is awful. It can be curated to only see things you find interesting or educational but the comments are still toxic. It's a cesspool of trolling and "who uses the strongest language wins" regardless of the validity of the argument made.

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I tell my 71 yr old parents this alllll the time.... stop watching the national news.

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That's all my parents do with television. My mom literally watches 4+ hours of news per day, local and national. They have got her shell shocked from the virus - she was one of the first in line to get vaccinated and STILL refuses to go outside to eat, shop, etc. Hasn't been to a restaurant in well over a year, hasn't been shopping anywhere aside from the local grocery, hasn't done jack shite except buy groceries and sit at home. When they go through a drive thru she's wearing a mask and gloves. It's really sad how warped her thinking is and it's because she does nothing but sit in front of the tv hearing about how bad the outside world is, meanwhile the rest of us are going about our daily lives. Hell, i'm in the middle of chemo treatment and still go out to eat, shopping, etc - I've tried time and time again to get her out of the house but she flat refuses.

Absolutely right. I deleted Facebook this week. I sat there last night as my wife watched a movie on her phone. Impossible to communicate. I’m not sure how to fix that. Maybe lead by example?