Blocking so many people posting such sad and overly intimate things about their lives. How are they okay with doing that? It just seems like such a private thing, and why are they foisting their MAJOR life issues that need professional help onto people just looking for chats and light conversation? Good grief. Please stop inflicting your hugely deep trauma on plain ol' people just looking to talk about trees and pets and holidays and their cool random tattoo. We're not qualified to help you.
@Willowy @tyote
While not all of us can help in all areas, many, many of us are fortunately in possession of reasonable amounts of empathy that we can offer a word of comfort or encouragement to posters who may be in need of either.
You are, I see, already curating YOUR own experience by blocking those posts which make you feel uncomfortable. Other people will curate THEIR own experience by posting about the things which affect them.
@Pat_Walrond Yes I am. And you can believe it or not, but I express empathy with co-workers and friends every day. I'm the 'mom' of our work team. I just don't feel like I'm qualified, or should be expected to provide an empathy receptacle for endless, anonymous, public trauma posted online. I don't see how that is unreasonable.
@Willowy Has anyone specifically tagged you asking for help or anything of that nature? If not, as with anything else on the Community Firehose, you read, block, or scroll past. Simple really.
Interestingly, Jester himself hosted a CoSo Open call Old Year's Night, I think it was, for people who might have been alone that night. It was an instinctive acknowledgement of how people may have been feeling that night, and a recognition that not everyone may hve cheerily been singing Auld Lang Syne