Why It’s Hard to Identify Toxic from Productive Content
Using mindfulness to be better about the content we pay attention to
We were visiting my grandma at her house, a rundown and old house, where the floors are tatami, the doors and walls are wood, the only air conditioning is a big fan, and there is no wifi.
Yet that didn’t stop my siblings and I from pulling out our phones and scrolling through social media on 4G, browsing through different accounts and seeing what other people were up to. Seeing us lying down on the floor just staring at our phones, my grandma scoffed, “Why do you spend so much time on that? Your attention is better served elsewhere.”
“I’m reading important information! Not all social media is bad.”
She shrugged, “Okay, if you say so.”
Why It’s hard to identify toxic from productive content
That girl who endlessly scrolls through social media doesn’t sound like me anymore. Some of my friends think I’m funny because I never know what’s going on in pop culture, others think I’m pretentious because I think I’m too good for mainstream media.
But I just got off social media because it was messing with my values.
