#before you say ''well if you use tiktok or facebook or xyz they have even more info on u'' as a gotcha; i dont

[boyczar]

if twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat & tiktok etc. are rotting your brain then literally just delete them. i’m sorry but i really don’t care if your response to that is “but i’m a trans disabled non-binary poly indigenous whatever and i need to have social media for xyz” you’re wrong. i don’t care if your response is “i have to build my online portfolio-“ irrelevant. you’re wrong. i don’t care what your “reason” is. you don’t need it. you literally don’t need them. the world existed before social media and it will exist long after. and you can too if you choose. if something brings you this much distress, destroys your attention span, shoots your self esteem to nothing, makes you constantly feel anxious, & the likes then you do not need it. if you want to think that you genuinely love social media and think that it can be used in any amount of moderation in a healthy way then be my guest. i have yet to meet a well-adjusted person who uses social media. (for reference i do not have a single person in my life who isn’t on multiple social medias.)

if you don’t feel any amount of disgusted with yourself and your lack of identity after you’ve done your 2 hour doom scroll (and that’s being generous) then you are an anomaly and you were probably born & bred for content consumption. congrats babe. but for the majority of us it’s poison. we all feel the way it makes us feel after. and i know it makes a lot of people uncomfortable to hear that because they feel judged and accosted and called out whenever someone says something mildly critical. i’m not even criticizing you (the consumer) for this, it’s the corporations themselves that gain from us being dumbed down & reduced to nothing. we’ve been collectively herded into a steel trap of addiction. there’s a wave of people who are starting to see through it and i hope it only grows. but i know for a lot of people it’s already too late. just be careful. be aware. be open & receptive. social media is not the world we should be living in. remember who you are. allow yourself to be it. for the joy it brings you, not the way it makes you feel to perform for others. interact with real humans in a meaningful way. tell someone you love them. you don’t want your next interaction with a loved one to be when you post something in memory of them on the day of their funeral. i’m lost in the plot but you feel me. we’re all in this together. we are all real and we are all here. you will not let them control you, mind, body & soul.