When I quit Facebook, I suddenly found out that I was getting less wrapped up in doing shit. I didn't know as much shit was going on, and I found myself being way less anxious because of it. Apparently there's a term floating around - FOMO. Fear of Missing Out. I'm definitely on the downswing from it.
I logged on the other day, and I had a delightfully negative (delightful because it was reinforcement to not be on there) reaction to the feed - it just looked like all so much noise. Which, of course, it is.
Also, I would contend that we're not a lazy civilization, we're just people, subject to weird dopamine responses.
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Date: 2013-09-12 10:04 pm (UTC)When I quit Facebook, I suddenly found out that I was getting less wrapped up in doing shit. I didn't know as much shit was going on, and I found myself being way less anxious because of it. Apparently there's a term floating around - FOMO. Fear of Missing Out. I'm definitely on the downswing from it.
I logged on the other day, and I had a delightfully negative (delightful because it was reinforcement to not be on there) reaction to the feed - it just looked like all so much noise. Which, of course, it is.
Also, I would contend that we're not a lazy civilization, we're just people, subject to weird dopamine responses.