: There still seem to be a lot of people on social media who say they have been on social media for years and years but whose conduct says they're either lying and have never been on social media, have been on social media for some appoint of time but at best been at least 90% lurkers and rarely ever interacted (for whatever reasons) with others on whatever platform(s), or are really bad at social media (for whatever reasons).
On social medias as IRL, they get 2, maybe 3 chances, and then ❌⛔❌ .
: As someone else posted in the last week or so, rage-posting gets old when it runs on repeat day after day, week after week. It's not infrequently hard to filter without filtering common words like peace, nation, people, work, crime, country, school, men, women, and more.
This became a problem on FB by 2012. It became a problem on Tweetar by 2015. I became a problem way back when on LJ in 2000. (I didn't use AOL because I knew how to use the internet already.)
: I get the need for venting, and it's cool, even can be very healthy, but continuous rage-posting is, to put it bluntly, something that gets really old really quicklylike, in part because it can't help but recruit company and snipe at targets of opportunity real or delusional (but mostly delusional, targets of the moment because the OP's pissed off but can't do anything about it IRL and is itching to take it out on someone ASAFP). That is, of course, poor etiquette.
: Put a filter hashtag and/or a warning on your rageposts and/or hide them behind that Sensitive Content blocky thing. I mean, well, unless you're fine with folks blocking you, which I know or have at least been assured some people do not mind at all. Coming in like it's time for a showdown at the OK Corral will set you apart quick, fast, and in a hurry, except of course on Reddit or Truth Social... or Tweetar these days. That will not be fun for anyone.
: And I understand that quite likely constant or at least reliable-like-clockwork rageposts and shitposts aren't representative of who you are, but if that's just about all we're going to see of you, it's all we're going to know of you... and people will react accordingly. Mute, Block, and even Report, depending on what you're throwing down.
If you're gonna treat social media like just a place you can scream and piss, you're gonna be pretty lonely. Try Reddit, Truth, or Twitter.
: Alas, you have to learn the community pretty quick on social media platforms, and the good news is it's pretty easy. My best advice is to try to hone in on positive or cool things that are being talked about or posted or to post niftycool stuff that you don't see or see much of on it. Convos will find you, and they will better, in the short and long runs, if it's mostly on positives or at least neutrals. Yeah, again, venting is okay, but as in IRL we have to manage our shit.
: If you've gotten this far with this thread, thanks for coming along. I didn't mean to go long.
If you've gotten this far and think I should go fuck myself, do us both a favor, and block me. Because there's more of all this where that came from. I'm all for curating one's own social media environment and folks getting along as much as participants will allow. It's much cooler, at least IMO, to share more cool stuff than pissing into the wind.