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The Block Button is More Than a Punitive Tool
It’s the key to de-stressing your social media experience.
For the longest time I’ve always treated Social Media like it’s some kind of civilized debate. Like, it’s okay that I sit down and offer my opinions, but, when somebody comes along and disagrees with them, and wants to call out how wrong I am, I’m supposed to debate them and win them over to my side.
I’m supposed to resist being inside of an echo chamber, I know. I’ve got to acknowledge and respect the opinions of everybody, not just the people I like and the people whose ideas I like.
It’s part of the collegiate aspect of being an intellectual, well-informed, human being. We’ve got to sit down, genuflect on everybody’s opinions, and modify our own opinions accordingly.
It’s part of the obligation of any moderately curious person who wants to change the world. Or is it?
I’m not saying that any of that is bad or wrong, because it isn’t. On one hand, it’s absolutely critical to informing your opinions and growing as a human being?
What I’m advocating is something more akin to . . . putting a low-level filter on the pool of ideas and filtering out the most toxic shit. There are some opinions that you don’t need to hear, some people that you don’t…
