• lostmypasswordanew@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    Yes, but that was still before social media. As weird as it sounds, social media is probably more damaging than the early oughts shock sites

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah social media just adds so much undue mental pressure, especially the non-anonymous ones.

      People are constantly seeing perfectly filtered and perfectly arranged photos of influencers apparently enjoying the perfect life and then comparing their own reality and feeling inadequate.

      The FOMO pressure to be always available and seek validation via DMs, comments and likes.

      The bombardment of political slop and seeing the opinions of every single fucker in the world and a few million bots about some mundane shit is bad for your mood.

      Sending and receiving Goatse was just a tiny bit of fun in comparison.

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      8 hours ago

      trueee, the closest i got to social media back then was a forum for a game i liked with less than 50 regular members