{"id":8774,"date":"2019-10-01T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8774"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:34:32","slug":"social-media-social-media-puts-us-into-a-state-of-perpetual-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/10\/01\/social-media-social-media-puts-us-into-a-state-of-perpetual-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media: Social media puts us into a state of perpetual outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Williams writes, \u201cThe most visible and consequential form of compromised \u2018daylight\u2019 we see in the digital attention economy is the prevalence and centrality of moral outrage. Moral outrage consists of more than just anger: It also includes the impulse to judge, punish and shame someone you think has crossed a moral line. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s my first piece of advice: Pick the social media platform that you find most stressful, and quit it. Don\u2019t quit social media or your phone cold turkey. Just quit one platform. If you\u2019re like me with Twitter, you\u2019ll be surprised how your stress level drops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/10\/01\/attention-monetized-consumers-make-reasonable-limits-supply-column\/3820157002\/\">Big Tech wants your attention. Don&#8217;t give them more than they deserve.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media&#8217;s structure (and goal) is to put us into a perpetual state of outrage: &#8220;The most visible and consequential form of compromised \u2018daylight\u2019 we see in the digital attention economy is the prevalence and centrality of moral outrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-perpetual-outrage","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}