Social media sucks
Envy has existed far longer than social media, none of these things would go away if social media doesn’t exist. Social media just amplifies it.
Comparison has always been the thief of joy.
Yep, “keeping up with the Jones’s” was a phrase I heard growing up in the 1980s
Also, attachment leads to suffering
Communication is a good thing.
But that’s not what most social media facilitates. The mainstream platforms were about staying in touch with friends and family, once, but now they are about parasocial celebrity worship and broadcasting your life in a fake light of endless positivity. All the while secretly hating the habit of feigned contentment, never realising everyone else is doing the same.
Social media could be about sharing our passions, forming real and meaningful connections with other individuals around the world, as well as truly coming to know ourselves as a species on a global scale.
Some small parts of it are exactly that.
Those are the parts I’m trying to perpetuate and nurture, and though they are a tiny part of the whole thing right now, it does mean it isn’t all bad.
People call stuff like Lemmy, 4chan or Reddit social media too but to me it’s always these Facebook or Instagram style self-presentation platforms. All of them suck ass.
I’d categorize these as forums rather than social media. I mean there isnt that much socializing happening around here
I think this lesson can be valuable but I also feel like it can be flippant to the point of implying everyone’s situation is equally bad or good, which is very dismissive of those in truly bad positions in life.
Comparison is the thief of joy
Nah that would be Bill, who stole my bottle of Joy when he house sat.
buy it in bulk my dude, just use any ol squeeze bottle. Those bottles of Joy are easy come easy go
Then it cuts to the dog using social media looking at skeletons.
sobbing over my phone because I couldn’t stop a friend from pairing full-bodied red wine with lobster
I too drive with my cellphone in one hand and my gut in the other.
Cars can be parked!? Big if true…
Or LA traffic. Which, now that I think about it, is the same thing.
I ride a motorcycle and can confirm that most drivers use this method.
I get the idea and I like it; but please don’t put poverty in this comics. Poor people aren’t envious of richer people, they deserve to live normally.
As someone who was poor and now is not poor, that’s bullshit. I was for sure envious of well-off folks around me. Now I absolutely don’t take it for granted.
