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metaphortunate) wrote2014-03-05 09:23 pm
metaphortunate) wrote2014-03-05 09:23 pm
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Twitter is like a machine for keeping me emotionally confused. It's like reading the following paragraph, but all day for 5 minutes at a time:
Oh god, my friend has cancer. The world is more peaceful than it has ever been in history. Here is something so offensive or insulting that it actually hurts to read, retweeted by a friend who wants to expose the fact that people say that sort of thing. Here is a picture of a cat riding a Roomba! More people are enslaved right now than ever before in history. My friend who has been trying to have a baby for ages is pregnant! Yay! The California drought is reaching epic proportions. My other friend sold one of her short stories! Another state is making a well-funded and well-organized effort to take away rights from women, gay people, trans people, and/or ethnic minorities. There is some jewelry for sale to benefit another sick person in the community who has no health insurance. My friend who was sick is better! A different country is being really brutal to their refugees, that sounds horrible. Here is a picture of my one friend's new dress. That's pretty cute, she looks great. Income inequality in the U.S. is steadily rising with no end in sight. Aw, my friends are taking a trip together and talking about it. Here's a really funny Night Vale joke. Here's an article about how fucked education in the U.S. is. Now a funny, sweet toddler story from a comrade-in-parenting. Now a story about animal abuse. Now a rec for some hot fanfic. Now a fun hashtag game with my friends. Now a surprisingly emotionally harrowing cartoon about sexism in comics.
I love keeping up with my friends, but I never know how the fuck to feel.
Oh god, my friend has cancer. The world is more peaceful than it has ever been in history. Here is something so offensive or insulting that it actually hurts to read, retweeted by a friend who wants to expose the fact that people say that sort of thing. Here is a picture of a cat riding a Roomba! More people are enslaved right now than ever before in history. My friend who has been trying to have a baby for ages is pregnant! Yay! The California drought is reaching epic proportions. My other friend sold one of her short stories! Another state is making a well-funded and well-organized effort to take away rights from women, gay people, trans people, and/or ethnic minorities. There is some jewelry for sale to benefit another sick person in the community who has no health insurance. My friend who was sick is better! A different country is being really brutal to their refugees, that sounds horrible. Here is a picture of my one friend's new dress. That's pretty cute, she looks great. Income inequality in the U.S. is steadily rising with no end in sight. Aw, my friends are taking a trip together and talking about it. Here's a really funny Night Vale joke. Here's an article about how fucked education in the U.S. is. Now a funny, sweet toddler story from a comrade-in-parenting. Now a story about animal abuse. Now a rec for some hot fanfic. Now a fun hashtag game with my friends. Now a surprisingly emotionally harrowing cartoon about sexism in comics.
I love keeping up with my friends, but I never know how the fuck to feel.
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But social media does tend to give me whiplash like that.
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