The real elephant in the (virtual) room is that you're addicted to your phone, the internet, social media. Nobody is saying it because we're all addicted too. But you're addicted to it and if you were the only one you'd look totally sick.
You're addicted for a reason. It's because you don't have any real thriving community in your physical world. Maybe you're in a rural area. Maybe the people around you aren't "based" so you come on here. Well, is this also what's stopping you from investing in physical community?
The best thing you can do is come here to make connections, get your gold (not their gold) and get out. If all social media went dark tomorrow it would probably improve most people's lives. You'd probably start looking for people nearby because you'd have no other option.
It's too easy here. It takes no effort to log on and get flooded with people who share your worldview. It can feel like a village. Many of these people are in a very real sense your friends. But they're not *yours*. They don't belong to you. They aren't your neighbor.
I'm not saying it's all bad. There's real good that comes from here. But always be finding the offramp. At least to the point where it's not your main social outlet. That's what's unsustainable.
Like the little rats who got addicted to cocaine when they were lonely, you're only addicted because your real life isn't coming through. It's not going to just arrive, you have to build it
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