Melbourne

You get the picture.

It leads to being terminally online which wouldn’t be so bad in the circumstances… but there seems to be a massive generational divide and culture shifts that make it the opposite of good.

And yeah, the internet always had a shittiness to it but there were at least some norms around managing it then (like ‘don’t feed the trolls’ ‘not your personal army’ ‘lurk moar’ and ‘do not go online and talk to adults while announcing that you’re a child’) and I’m finding the behaviour to be ruder and more maladaptive now. The users are inappropriately young and somehow more obnoxious than they used to be. More invasive.

(And yes, this is an expected function of getting older, but I have never liked kids and teens. I’ve been a cranky old person since I was 8 years old. This crop just have managed to worsen or invent new bad behaviours. Social media is getting very toxic.)

The people I actually talk to are drifting away.

I really feel like all of the online platforms except this one are just a bad fit for me, and I feel like the area I live in is also pretty incompatible for me.

Plus I’m in pain all the damn time. -_- Quality of life is pretty low right now.

I could join online disability groups but I really don’t want to. There’s little new information that I can’t Google and I don’t want it to be my identity and the centre of my life, you know?

I have other things I’d do but I’m not currently up to it. Not really workable until I get my health managed and possibly move out of my current shithole. Which may never happen.