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Avoiding Digital Dumbassery: 3 Steps to Outsmart the Internet’s Bullshit
Online Voyeurs and Shit-Starters
Raise your hand if you’ve ever impulsively liked or shared something online, only to realize later it was total bullshit? 🙋🏻♂
I raised my hand. Have you?
Now, let’s pretend we’re in the same room with the hundreds of other people who’ll read this piece.
If I had you to look around, I bet you’d see everyone with their hands up. See, we aren’t the only dumbasses.
We’re all guilty of spreading inaccurate or sensationalized information online.
Think about it, even if you consider yourself an online voyeur — lurking over posts and creeping the comments but never actually participating — the algorithms will elevate that content.
Then there are the shit-starters, the bro’s among us, inserting themselves into random conversations, determined to prove a point, win the argument, or get off arguing with Russian bots.
Sounds like a great use of time and energy, bro.
The choice to engage with an online post has consequences —…
