Oh man, I'm so jealous... I need it for work unfortunately, or I really wouldn't be on there. I only follow people I like, but somehow negative stuff still winds up on my feed. Some of its political stuff, which I usually don't mind at all. But something about Twitter as a platform itself stresses me out. I think because everything has to be so short and punchy and attention-grabbing. And having it all mixed together with innocuous posts just freaks out my brain or something. On other platforms, it's easier for me to just keep scrolling if I don't want to engage with a topic at that moment. But often on Twitter, I've already read the entire tweet before I've had time to think about it.
Definitely. I think it's important to engage with ideas you don't understand or agree with and sometimes that means an article/post can put you a little on edge. But I usually reserve that for more important things (like politics haha) and not necessarily video games. Sometimes I just want to talk to other people who also like a thing. Or at least not engage with people who will be hostile with me for liking a thing.
That meshes a lot with my own experience, but I know I also tend to hang out in nerdy spaces online. I absolutely agree that it often feels like I've accidentally gotten into an argument when I was just trying to talk. A lot of the time I feel the need to talk someone down before I actually get to the rest of my post.
I hate this. They really are just there to argue when that happens.
