[peoplefromibiza]

> it makes me feel... good?

it doesn't in general.

and that "good feeling" is mostly a lie, something we tell ourselves, because of our education, if our education was not biased by some made-up belief, we should feel nothing, not good, not bad, because we should not care about it. What other people do with their lives - in reality - has no impact on our life at all.

But we were all thought to poject. Unfortunately people mostly project their frustrations on others.

The only way to actually feel good about something that people share, it's to share it, like in person, in real life, not passively receive it on a screen.

If watching a screen full of "good news" would actually improve people's mood, it would be recommended by WHO like with vaccines.

[id]

>that "good feeling" is mostly a lie

I meant good as in "hey, that's great for them", not as in "I'm so happy I can't stop smiling".

>because we should not care about it

If people truly didn't care, they wouldn't go on social media or read the news.

[peoplefromibiza]

> I meant good as in "hey, that's great for them"

yeah, that's part of education, it's not really what we should feel, because we don't know!

Social media are just suspension of disbelief for the masses, we are looking through the keyhole, it should be obvious that what we're looking at it's a fabrication and nothing is real.

It's like those truth-vs-reality posts about social media pictures.

It's so obvious when you think about it for a moment: we don't believe that the ice cream in the ADs is actually THAT good, why we should believe that self promotional material on social media it's any better?

https://www.demilked.com/instagram-online-picture-lies-truth...

https://www.boredpanda.com/instagram-vs-reality-truth-behind...

> If people truly didn't care, they wouldn't go on social media or read the news.

as I've said before.

They should not care, but if they don't, they're out of the game.

And it hurts to them more than feeling bad.

People have been thaught that if you're not getting any attention, you're nothing.