Ok, lemme take a guess. If you are reading this and you're a twitter user then I'm assuming you logged on just to experiment on how life was like in this virtual world. You fell in love with the idea of interacting with millions of people as you commented on famous people and others you've grown to idolize because you share a similar world view. Remember when you got your first like and you felt heard, got your first 100 followers, and felt like you'd surpassed a milestone. You've been following people then after they follow back you secretly unfollow them, stop it that's cheating. Most of your days are spent scrolling down the TL and at first, you used to like the relevant stuff but now you are the one who has decided to seek relevance instead.
So, you emotionally invest yourself in the latest topic especially a thought-provoking one and tweet under the guise that you are contributing to a bigger cause and you remain stuck there for hours because the algorithm keeps manipulating you so you keep typing and recruiting your fellas by tagging them then it's a whole party. Must be nice being part of some brigade, hey, some of you go to the extent of bullying celebrities and other influencers. Commenting on their lives and displaying your lack of empathy. Gross, can we be a little human.
If you're the chronically anxious type like me then eish, it must be rough hey. It's funny how we just keep checking the timeline even when we know the implications it has on our mental state. Actually we're kinda messed up already because we've got this addiction leading us to twitter before consuming some more junk content on the timeline, poor souls. Shame! But then what do you expect from a platform where you interact with people from all walks of earth, tragedy is inevitable. Someone will be raped, someone will be killed somewhere but the problem starts when you personalize issues that have nothing do to with you. All of a sudden you're relating to someone's tragic story.
It's the same story when you see the accomplished post about the brighter side of their lives then you start comparing your insides—your anxieties, fears, and insecurities—with other people's outward selves: their accomplishments, polished selfies, and edited articles. There will always be someone who’s doing better than you are in any aspect of your life. And because you tend to follow people you admire or who are already famous, you are constantly aware of just how much better other people are. Remember that anxiety functions by always reminding you to pay attention, just like twitter. Twitter draws users back for more and more and more. Smartphones are designed to provide instant gratification, and many of Twitter's features depend on our biological fear of scarcity, says Pamela Rutledge, the director of the Media Psychology Research Center. The push notifications, the little number next to our mentions, the bar that tells us how many tweets have been sent since we last refreshed the page—all of these details are designed to keep users coming back, afraid that we might have missed something vital.
Please stop being a victim of FOMO, you don't have to subscribe to the popular narrative. I mean, after all, you're just talking to yourself. At least one user hears you and that's enough, you don't need validation hey. Anyway, I'll keep it short, I know you guys can't handle length paragraphs, kinda funny though how someone can trigger you without going into detail.
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