Yesterday I found someone who says “question mark” after every question and has apparently forgotten how to inflect their voice to express tone. It was horrifying, but I realized I’m not that different. I immediately think “cringe” or “based” at many things. Even when I’m not terminally online everything I hear gets put on a meme template by my brain. I’m having trouble expressing tone/emotion in writing without visual indicators like emojis or “/s.” I know I’m not alone, what do we do?
Take 3 days 100% no phone, no exceptions except emergencies keep it off. If it’s no big deal, it’s no big deal. If it feels like withdrawing from opiates and is hideously uncomfortable, you have a problem.
Personally the words and tone etc aren’t inherently, to me, the worst thing, emojis are a lot of fun, pictograms even, we’re connecting to our ancestors 😔🙏
I actually took a month mostly off of my phone and it was great. I should get back off but I have FOMO for Lemmygrad. I’m also clearly addicted once I allow myself to use the internet at all.