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Old 12-03-2022, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by DAVES View Post
It has perhaps become a national obsession with complaining. Things are not that bad.
Precisely. The traditional media sells more advertising by raising passions of outrage, worry, and so on. Social media is mostly an echo chamber of whatever group you want to listen to. The noise-to-signal ratio from our devices is very high. More device time isn’t healthy. But it’s easy to tune out much of the noise if we try — beginning with the on-off switch.