It's hard, with Twitter feeds, because even people I like will go "Look at the terrible!" (heck, I do sometimes.) Because things cross a threshhold where we feel we have to DO SOMETHING and sometimes the DO SOMETHING is to TELL EVERYONE and then it just gets cumulative across multiple people and...well. Yeah. I don't have a solution, just a description.
Tumblr is a lot calmer for me, but that's because I have a filter list about thirty items long on Tumblr Savior. Does a post tell me to reblog it, or ask for donations, or use keywords associated with recent atrocities? I do not see it! My Tumblr feed is full of pretty pictures and amusing comments and smaaaaaall amounts of politics. I wish I could trivially filter Twitter; I think it would help a lot.
I don't use Facebook because it baffles me and makes me feel about fifty years older.
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Tumblr is a lot calmer for me, but that's because I have a filter list about thirty items long on Tumblr Savior. Does a post tell me to reblog it, or ask for donations, or use keywords associated with recent atrocities? I do not see it! My Tumblr feed is full of pretty pictures and amusing comments and smaaaaaall amounts of politics. I wish I could trivially filter Twitter; I think it would help a lot.
I don't use Facebook because it baffles me and makes me feel about fifty years older.
Your cat has some good ideas, it's true.