Here’s some unsolicited advice: if someone hurts your feelings online, your Plan A should be to ignore, unfollow, or block them.
Don’t take the bait! It’s a trap!
People behind screens will naturally become aggressive and hurtful and it’s not you they’re reacting to, it’s some words on a tiny screen that some stranger typed than made them feel weird little feelings. And vice versa. You’re just imagining their faces and voices and feelings and lives too, imprecisely, inaccurately, unfairly, out of context.
These words you’re reading right now aren’t real words, as spoken amongst humans with grunts and gestures and pats and laughs and smiles and frowns and shared food and work and love and care. They’re just scribbles on a screen. Take em or leave em.
They’re not your friends, they’re not even your neighbors. We’re all just fellow strangers wandering in a vast dysfunctional social desert, reading each other’s field notes.
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