Topics: Communication • Community
Community • Empathy • Common Ground
Aggravation and disinformation are very common on the internet, and joining this trend often makes your posts or messages more popular. There is an alternative to the harshness that is popularized, which is spreading kindness, positivity, and truth wherever needed. Although pessimism and fabrication can often be the norm on the internet, beautiful exceptions can be made where people come to talk not out of disagreement, but to share spirited and soulful conversation that can cause wholesome reflections on the world.
Way to often do people come home from long days just to see people arguing and polarizing each other on online platforms that they may use more often than talking in person. Especially if this is the case, turmoil on the one place where nearly everyone can get a say can paint a misleadingly hateful picture of the world. In truth, social media is the greatest opportunity to see interactions otherwise impossible and demonstrate the potential commonality between people. Kindness, positivity, and truth.
Why do so many people partake in negativity and disinformation when the opposite could leave them feeling more fulfilled?