Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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    7 months ago

    Nah, I meant “stupid americans”. They were right.

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      7 months ago

      Oh, OK. Yeah, I understand now why the other person got defensive. I obviously also get your anger at US people. But why would you then throw “civilised people” around? Imo this reinforces colonialist viewpoints of civilised vs uncivilised people.

      ETA: oh wow, scrolling through your recent posts you seem to have a lot of oppressive and conservative opinions.

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        7 months ago

        Wouldn’t describe them as oppressive, I’m just a constitutional monarchist and I recently started a flame war over why I don’t think religion should be destroyed lmao.

        Also the white Europeans living in America are colonialists and those are the ones I am referring to as uncivilised, not indigenous. So I apologise if you thought that I was referring to indigenous people.

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          7 months ago

          I just started a flame war

          Okay so I don’t need you in my feed then. Blocked. Hope more follow suit

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            7 months ago

            I’m going to cry at night