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I can't remember the last time online sentiment was that next year would be better than the last.
I have no idea how people must have felt, back in the days where there was optimism for the future.
Every year I just feel we're all just bracing ourselves for how bad it's gonna be.
What a strange world we live in.
2010-12 I'd reckon.
Before your dad had a smartphone.
Before all social media had switched from chronological to algorithmic serving of content.
Before the fraudulent-data-driven "pivot to video" that killed all the websites that aren't part of the cycle of screenshots from one of four websites reposted on the other three.
Some things are genuinely worse but social media makes everything doom and gloom.
One of the most important skills to have online these days is to interact while staying detached from the drama.
I can participate online but the minute I close the app I fully detach from it. It's not real, social media and news is not the real world. It's a micro view of all the worst parts about life.
It's important to be informed, but also understand that you are seeing 1% of the picture and listening to people that are probably morons in real life telling you with confidence how things are.