The feeling'll pass. For me and goes and comes and waves. I remember looking at Facebook comments about Caitlin Jenner and just feeling truly, truly sickened by people. Like, these are Facebook profiles. These are real people with their names attached to their accounts and everything, not like Reddit. And it was still the most vitriolic garbage. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that people care so much about shit that doesn't matter to them just for the sake of having their bigoted opinions plastered on a virtual wall. I think I get where you're coming from. Sometimes I just feel an immense amount of cynicism for people around me and it turns into lots of contempt, like no one is being honest about themselves and who they are. That being said, and I can't say answer how old you are, but if you're college age like me I would guess it's a mixture of A: getting out of college because college kids mostly suck (especially in regards to the love thing you're talking about), and B: not letting social media get to you too much and recognizing that people are generally alright, even if they can be stupid sometimes. Hubski helped me understand B a little better.
I recently had a high school buddy post a photo of Caitlin Jenner and a soldier and said, "this is what courage really looks like" under the soldier. His post had like 5 "likes" too. I was disillusioned. Then, I made the comment under his post: Courage comes in many forms. To acknowledge one form doesn't diminish the others. -This comment received twice as many "likes." -My experience is that the good, sane and thoughtful people out-number the morons.I remember looking at Facebook comments about Caitlin Jenner and just feeling truly, truly sickened by people.
That was a meme started by a director. He did Friday Night Lights? Blue Something or Other? His name is Peter Berg. Caitlyn Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Award for courage at the ESPYS, ESPN's attempt at an award show for a thing with awards built into it (sports), and there's no rule that says the winner has to be an athlete. So this guy decides to pander to the kind of person who'd object to her winning a courage award by posting a picture of a soldier who got his legs blown off doing his job in some war that shouldn't have happened. It's like a perfect storm of colliding cultures.
You just have to coax the good out of them sometimes. :P
You have a pretty good idea, but I'm a little older than you and it's not like it makes me hate the world or feel down about myself, just I feel like the human race should be better by this point. People mostly suck, you'll get out of college and figure that out ;). There are amazing people though, you just have to weed through the crap. And the love thing I'm talking about is in regard to the show "Catfish" mentioned in the original post lol. Also, writing about the show catfish. I should have prefixed the title of this post with, "My reflections on catfish and misc. reddit bs."For me and goes and comes and waves. I remember looking at Facebook comments about Caitlin Jenner and just feeling truly, truly sickened by people. Like, these are Facebook profiles. These are real people with their names attached to their accounts and everything, not like Reddit. And it was still the most vitriolic garbage.
college kids mostly suck (especially in regards to the love thing you're talking about),
B: not letting social media get to you too much and recognizing that people are generally alright, even if they can be stupid sometimes.