omg, my media thoughts!
safety safety safety. Let's be safe online, or not - after this week's readings, I've been thinking about how social media is both this amazing tool for connection - something that I've been able to experience first hand and a total dumpster fire when it comes to safety, particularly for marginalized groups - but yet, in that same token, it's a place to find others like yourself.
I believe the media is meant to be a bubble surrounding us, informing us, performing for us - and however much you allow it to take up your life is what you allow. we have block buttons, mute buttons, and cataclysms of information to be absorbed or ignored - while I can emphasize and sympathize - feel and understand this particular ache, I can also recognize that the media is just. reflect of the people in the world, and while social media can be gently mandated, the issue is a retroactive continuous cycle of hatred, that simply goes unchecked online. It is a place with no rules, except when there are -











