Nah, I’m just shy. Especially with women. I don’t feel I have much to offer anyone.
My social battery is dead and been incinerated.
I wonder if “human BS” is just the frustration that real human communication is less convenient and demands more attention than the other forms of communication we’ve gotten used to.
Email also requires a lot of “human BS” to avoid conveying an unintended tone without being able to directly address it.
I think that applies prior to texting, social media, video calls too though. Except back then, I could avoid people by either not giving them my number or saying I wasn’t home when they called.
Now you’re expected to have your phone on you at all times, then little Jimmy from elementary school finds you on social media and wants to know if you’re interested in essential oils.
It’s impossible for me. I always turn into the personal therapist. I see too much. And I can’t help it. Just ended a friendship over this because it was exhausting to maintain.
Cursed with empathy
To be fair many people out there are just becoming more horrible and its not worth your effort ;)
Social media. You use it up spending time on Reddit and Lemmy etc.
Nah, it’s easy to block and or not engage in toxicity on social media if you choose so
That really does not matter. Spend some time camping with no phones and notice how differently you feel and behave. Humans did not evolve to have smartphones and social media, it triggers numerous emotional responses without actually satisfying them, by its inherent nature.
When I burned out of the corporate world, I went back to school for horticulture and became a gardener. Nature bathing/green therapy is very real and I agree very important for people to do regularly to ground themselves in this chaotic world.
kicks you in the balls
Yes.
Want to be friends, but then never talk? Like ever?