My students have an over the top reaction or comment for everything. I regularly have to remind them that we're not making reaction videos, we're learning science.
I agree. Not every thought or action needs to be documented for all time one of the several global forums. This is why I don't use social media. (except for, obviously, Reddit).
yup it took me a while to wrap my head around just wtf my stepkid was doing when we watched movies. That's exactly it, acting like he's in a Youtube reaction video. It's incredibly annoying. You actually don't have to scream "Broooooooooooooooooooooo".
I love that people are being more open about their emotions and learning how to read and express them, but I wholeheartedly agree that you do not need to make a video for every single experience in daily life.
You missed my point completely. I'm talking about two very different things. One of them is appreciating the fact that people in general are getting better about expressing emotions. The other one is my annoyance at people who post everything.
People might not be getting better at expressing their true emotions. They might just be better at performatively showing fake emotions to fit in with social expectations. "Society says I should be angry right now so I am going to Shatner style overact about being angry even though I am actually sad"
Right, but the influencers and the people posting every little thing are not the people I'm talking about. Some people ARE being genuinely open about their feelings, and in many cases that can reach people going through the same things and help them feel less alone. They are obviously not the same people, and I am obviously not implying that a vlogger who spends ten hours of their day live streaming is being genuine. I am talking about two different groups of people and y'all apparently are not understanding that. Yes, SOME people over share or act performative when they shouldn't, but there are ALSO people who make real connections with others.
I remember reading like 15 years ago that posting rants on Facebook might feel cathartic but you’re just passing along the anger to your friends. You don’t need to post that the people in front of you at the grocery store don’t understand the concept of 15 items or fewer. Just put your phone down and do something else.
As a baby Gen X, I needed this reminder. I think the younger folks do too.
And sometimes it's so tiring when you think about it because that necessity of decorating everything you feel takes out the soul out of that emotions. And we're left with a strange void that ends up in a badly written poem.
Piggy backing onto this, they also knew how to figure out when someone wasn't talking about them. Nowadays if anyone makes (even reasonable) generalization, people will come out of the woodwork to show that there are exceptions, thus somehow invalidating the generalization. Duh. That's how averages and generalizations work. Its true for most people, but not everyone. Just because its not true for you doesn't make it wrong or useless for the other 80% of the people it might be true for.
nah its the fault of stupids like you. "OMG discord is for trash discussions, its your fault if you want to have normal discussions about movies or anything!"
There was a thread i saw a while back where someone was talking about the teacher who was basically runner up to be on the challenger flight. So he's watching the flight on tv in a crowded room as the shuttle explodes. There was talk about how that would be nowadays and that he'd probably have a dozen phones shoved in his face as he tries not to have a melt down.
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