Getting along with people or making new friends is such a bother in the adult world...

People are more untrusting than ever, traits like kindness and humbleness have become exploitable weaknesses, people stopped using their brains and started making up their minds about others based on emotions and buzzwords because they're so overloaded by information. A lot of young people are depressed and miserable, unable to find friends, lovers or simply too afraid to try. it's a very gray picture to paint but from my perspective the world has gotten a lot more selfish and cynical.

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SUPERVlXEN · F

Emotions based on observations have always played a huge part in how we perceive other people.

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@SUPERVlXEN Yet it's very uncivilized to react immediately instead of questioning and discussing, since a lot of things are not the way they seem at first.

SUPERVlXEN · F

@DrSunnyTheSkeptic
It's each to their own. I don't think it's something new. You might say it's maybe become more visible due to how the internet is used, but so has uncivilized behavior in general. Look at the bullies and trolls, how they thrive with both online as offline. There's no search for any understanding of each other, it's i'm right, and you're wrong and because you're wrong [in my own view] it's legit to treat you like garbage. But we always had bullies and trolls, also before the internet. All we can do, is look at ourselves and our own actions, and that of our surroundings, and then decide whether we want to enable others by support/staying silent, or if we want to make a difference and stand up to them. But it's not a pick and chose, or something we can based on whether we want the attention of someone of our interest. Our actions/inactions might be observed by others and have consequences for how they feel emotionally about us and how they perceive us.

DrSunnyTheSkeptic · 26-30, M

@SUPERVlXEN I agree