I am a bit of a Twitter addict these days. The purpose of this blog is to talk about the intersection of technology and mental health because, well, I think it is a good thing. The more we understand the difference between our thoughts and actions, the better we can help ourselves and others.
I’m sure your list is a lot on point, but we also want to talk more about the new technology of Twitter. Twitter has not just become a more-or-less-effective app for communication, it has made the world more-and-more-concerned with the social web.
Twitter has been a very effective way to communicate with friends and family, so it was a natural extension of this to also be a tool to communicate, “talk” to, and ask out strangers. We’ve seen these conversations between people who are in the same situation on the same day, but they are often of a very different nature. For instance, a woman recently shared some of her experiences with the social web with a man she met on Twitter.
She explains that her friend had recently broken up with her boyfriend and was looking for a way to reconnect. She tried the dating sites, but all of her attempts failed. She also tried Twitter and it seemed to help, but she was unsure of its effectiveness since she was not in the same situation as her friend. She decided to try the social web, because that seems like the best way to find a friend.
The problem with social media, is that you’re not really friends. You have two “friends”: the person who you’ve made this connection with on Twitter and the person who you’ve just made this connection with on Facebook (or any other network). It’s like you’re having a conversation with a stranger. You say hello, and you exchange pleasantries, but nothing more.
I know this is a bit extreme, but I think I’m just going to go ahead and say that people who live in the virtual world are probably a lot friendlier than people who actually live in the physical world. With a world so vast, there’s no way to know what’s going on between the people you can actually meet in the real world.
Some people are actually quite nice, and if they are, it’s because they don’t have anything better to do. People who live in the virtual world, however, are probably much more friendly. It comes from the fact that our brains have a much higher tolerance for the “other” than the physical. We are hardwired to care a lot more about people we have never met in real life than we do about people we have met.
We are also hardwired to hate on people who arent like us. That’s why people who live in the virtual world don’t like it as much as people who live in real life. It’s because the people in the virtual world are usually cuter, and we can’t really relate to them in a way that the people we live with on a day-to-day basis can.
The best part of this journey is that we have decided what we can do to change our attitude towards others. We are not just going to fight for the good of the world, we are going to fight for the good of the whole world. We are going to fight for our own happiness and our own salvation. If we don’t change our attitude, we are going to break the world.
Well, that’s a bit of a problem because the world is so much better after we change our attitude. We have decided that we are going to change our attitude towards ourselves. We are going to change our outlook on life, our attitude towards our friends, our attitude towards our work, our attitude towards ourselves.
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