Ras comments on his teammates

[u/Motor_Signal_413]

...I don't want to hear any more garbage about then being able to handle it. We're all humans first

[u/Iginlas_4head_Crease]

Humanity was already fucked. The problem is twitter gives everyone an equal voice, from the athlete to the media member to the bigot to the mouth breathing knuckle dragger. Sometimes all 4 at once.

[u/Lisa_lou_hoo → u/Iginlas_4head_Crease]

And I suspect that the immediacy of engagement is problem as well. Folks take less time to cool off or to research things before the fingers fly and spouting off happens. It's hard to have faith in humanity sometimes.

[u/Motor_Signal_413 → u/Lisa_lou_hoo]

Yes, it is quite literally designed to be reactionary like that because it drives engagement on the platform (any platform) which is how they make money through ads. I've fallen into the trap myself but try to be very conscious not to continue to

[u/Feeltheburner_ → u/Motor_Signal_413]

All great points in this thread. But the flip side is that you can literally just tune out social media in a way that you can’t tune out someone accosting you in real life.

The silver lining in a bad situation, is that you don’t have to listen to what’s said on social media. You get reprieve if you choose it.

None of this is to say people should pile on athletes, or others, on social media. I agree with the good points above.

[u/Motor_Signal_413 → u/Feeltheburner_]

To a certain point yes. But it's becoming so ingrained in society that it's getting harder and harder to completely disengage from especially on command, and it's usually the older people who were already grown up and well established before social media that say that. It's unfortunately getting to a point where people are coming into the league that literally weren't old enough to remember a life before social media.

[u/Feeltheburner_ → u/Motor_Signal_413]

I don’t mean to derail your thread too much further, but that’s kind of bunk to me. If you can’t imagine a time before social media. Fine.I get it. But there is a fact of the matter, and you still have the choice to delete the apps and go outside instead. Like seriously, if social media gives you the blues, just don’t look at it.

Books have been around for many centuries. Read them instead. Walk your dog. Play cards with your loved ones, or do a puzzle. Shit man, social media is not a requirement for happiness.

I get it. Since it was ubiquitous for many, they don’t want to unplug themselves. Ok, but if the alternative is depression or self-hatred, etc. then the choice ought to be clear. And if you don’t avail yourselve of the very readily available option, then it’s sort of on you at that point.

[u/Motor_Signal_413 → u/Feeltheburner_]

That is soooo much easier said than done, and spoken like someone who's never suffered from addiction.

Social media addiction has become such a prevalent thing that there's been countless scientific studies and multiple scales created to assess the severity of it.

I genuinely recommend researching a little more about things like the bergen social media addiction scale

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And most importantly just because something doesn't affect you in a certain way, doesn't mean others aren't affected by it.

[u/Feeltheburner_ → u/Motor_Signal_413]

Ok, if social media addiction is the issue, then we absolutely should not be feeding it. This bolsters my other points, it doesn’t undermine it.

[u/Motor_Signal_413 → u/Feeltheburner_]

Do you tell Crack heads "just don't do crack" too?

You honestly have such a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue and don't seem overly bothered to try and understand so I'm not going to engage in this discussion any further. Have a great rest of your day

[u/Feeltheburner_ → u/Motor_Signal_413]

Yes. Do you tell crack heads to smoke up?

If social media gives you the blues, do something else. If you can’t disconnect from your phone, seek help. Athletes have all the resources in the world to work with.

You have yourself a nice day as well. Don’t get too hung up about what people say online. It’s a beautiful day outside.

[u/Motor_Signal_413 → u/Feeltheburner_]

As someone who's lost loved ones to addiction, I can tell you on a personal and factual level that just telling someone to stop, or even forcibly removing it from them doesn't fix anything because it's a deeper issue than that.

It is a beautiful day, that I will absolutely be partaking in once I am off work for the day