{"id":42531,"date":"2016-07-13T21:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T01:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42531"},"modified":"2020-07-22T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T01:57:14","slug":"social-devaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42531","title":{"rendered":"Social devaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"

After like two months, I decided to get off my high horse perched atop a pedestal that was boosted up on a soap box, and opened up Facebook.\u00a0 I had a couple of new friend requests, some group conversations that were now a month past since the last message, and 99 new notifications that\u2019s really more, but Facebook only registers up to 99, and apparently, only one month\u2019s worth.\u00a0 But all in all, I still don\u2019t feel like I really missed anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admittedly, I\u2019d been peculiar about when I\u2019d dive back in, because I didn\u2019t really want to jump back in the midst of a tragedy, or too big of a political shit storm, and if it were up to me, I\u2019d like to have something interesting to post about as well.\u00a0 But then shit like all the killings of black people, the bombing of Istanbul airport, protests, politics and other things kept happening around the world, and if they were insufferably covered by the media, I could only imagine that the opinionating by people on social media would have been a hundred times worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, if I waited for the world to be peaceful for just a week, I\u2019d probably be waiting until I was 90 years old.\u00a0 So I realized that I needed to lower my expectations, and when the coast was clear for like five minutes, I dove back in.\u00a0 Not to mention that I was still kind of on my high for being the first winner of the Willy\u2019s Road Trip, and I figure it would be something somewhat interesting to post about.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit that I was pretty surprised at just how saturating Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> has covered the world, magnified by how like 80% of my internet friends are all gung-ho into the game as well.\u00a0 Typically, I\u2019m the type that avoids super hyped things like this, but in this rare instance, I\u2019m also one of the sheep that\u2019s also currently playing the game.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m not the type to post screencaps of everything I\u2019m doing, because as much as I\u2019d like to play it more, I just don\u2019t have the time as others currently do, but what I\u2019m trying to say is that I\u2019m relieved that people are more exuberant about talking about Pikachus rather than politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, it\u2019s really amusing to see how people playing the pikachu game<\/em>* have created such news tidbits such as people finding dead bodies<\/a> and loaded guns<\/a>, people using the game to rob others<\/a>, stabbings<\/a>, bully-deterring<\/a>, among other amusing stories that have probably just scratched the surface of things to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

*my personal name for Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, what it all boils down to is that despite spending two months off of theFacebook, unsurprisingly, I feel like I have missed out on nothing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve scrolled back as far as Facebook will allow me to, in order to try and see what people have done over that span, but nothing appeared to have been anything out of the ordinary.\u00a0 Sure, lots of fluffy remarks about Orlando, Turkey, and the rise of protests and police anti-trust.\u00a0 But this is the kind of shit that was quite commonplace, even when I was checking numerous times a day, every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interesting byproduct of the lengthy avoidance is that even though I\u2019ve broken the chain of separation, I don\u2019t often feel compulsions to check nearly as often as I used to in the past.\u00a0 Maybe people aren\u2019t doing things that make me feel like I should be envious or missing out, or maybe my apathy has grown over the last two months.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s something a little more clinical.\u00a0 But the thing is that I just don\u2019t care about what\u2019s going on, on social media like I must have in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I\u2019ve devalued the worth of social media in my daily routines.\u00a0 Frankly, I think it\u2019s kind of better that way, because I\u2019m finding that I\u2019m more apt to read news and websites with slightly more face and substance than solely opinions, and I\u2019m giving more thought to the shows and movies on Netflix, and the books on Kindle that I would rather indulge in myself, over wasting minutes-into-hours seeing what internet friends are talking about, themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as long as the property is currently relevant, playing with pikachus > posting about political poo yes I am trying to use alliteration here.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After like two months, I decided to get off my high horse perched atop a pedestal that was boosted up on a soap box, and opened up Facebook.\u00a0 I had a couple of new friend requests, some group conversations that were now a month past since the last message, and 99 new notifications that\u2019s really … Continue reading Social devaluation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,133,165,156],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-old-man","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42532,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions\/42532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}