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Newest post: Maybe the problem is you
Hanging out in this corner of the internet inevitably exposes one to a lot of bitching about social media and the internet. That's fine and good; you can't fix a problem that nobody ever identifies or complains about, and we have plenty of them.
But there's a genre of post that I see again and again. The author will go on at length about how everything sucks they just want to retvrn to a time when the dominant global network was a telephone system owned by a government-endorsed private monopoly. They describe all the problems they have with modern technology: using social media makes them feel bad, the apps and streaming services they pay for are low-quality, they can't ever be offline. "Third spaces" are always mentioned, as though everyone would happily give up their magic entertainment rectangles in exchange for awkward conversation with strangers --- if only there were more venues for it.
None of these is actually a problem with the world. They are all problems with you.
If social media makes you feel bad, you can log off.
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