A few ways social media makes us anti social

Here is a random list of things I've seen/learned this week!

• People are too scared to "yap" too much and be bullied for being "cringe" (causes a lot of dry texters)
• On spacehey there are "friends collectors" who are looking for space hey game (legit what the fuck is that)
• Don't like don't interact isn't common knowledge 
• Bullies expect you to still be their friend after they bully you because "it's just a joke and all their friends do it"
• People allow direct immediate access to themselves at all times! Some people having up to 3 or more social media apps with ALL notifications with sound turned on... This is why people respond back within the same day "so sorry for the late reply" when I would personally consider a late reply a week later
• People feel pressured to sanitize themselves and to only send short texts at a time
• People monitor and moderate others on their posts to make their posts more general audience appropriate.

I have seen a lot of other anti social behavior taught through apps like TikTok and Twitter (I don't use either but these are examples of the most harmful corpo and) and I've seen it in my own posts on here and Tumblr before too. I've learned new anti social behaviors since I joined like the friend collectors?? Very weird. To add someone and then share them in their own bulletins?? When you see everyone else on my friend list won't want to add u cuz ur being fucking mean but ok...

I'll probably post another anti social behavior list as I understand these more but I think a root cause really is the corpo social media sites teaching these behaviors to uses using a stick and carrot method so that they drive engagement.

Your post isn't made for a general audience? Your post is too long? It's a niche topic that isn't trending? Stick.

Make fun of a random person online? Piss them off? Attract a crowd to watch and join in? Carrot.

The one thing I've noticed the most is how it's impacted art and how people enjoy and create it. People become so used to everything being sanitized and sold as a product that now people look at indie projects the same. It's becoming a way art is censored if it wasn't intended for everyone. I'm being vague and generalizing now because I will detail from this topic lmao