Dear Social Media, our relationship has been bugging me for a while now. It’s not you, it’s me. You know how they say a relationship should have more good than bad interactions? Well I feel hurt too often so its time to take action.
Introduction
Maybe it was that with “Covid-times” closing schools I hadn’t written a report in 6 months (something very typical of my job). Or maybe it was that I was fed up with trying to figure out how someone with my sensitive nature fits in in the virtual world. Either way, I was struck with an incessant need to alter my relationship with it, and more importantly, to write about it.
After mostly PTSD-like symptoms following any scrolling of a social media newsfeed, I figured I had two options. I could give up on the virtual world completely, or learn to find a way of co-existing with it. No offense to those who find more good than bad online, but it’s just not me. My experience on social media felt like it mimicked a relationship, but not a good one. Since I wasn’t ready to give up on it completely, I a started a quasi-experiment in an attempt to figure out how I could co-exist with it.