Remember when social media was fun?\u00a0 When people only shared jokes and silly memes and family photos and no one talked about politics or world issues?\u00a0 \u00a0Remember when you just wanted to collect “friends” and didn’t care how well you actually knew them or if you knew anything about them?<\/p>\n
Then again, what other reason IS there for social media if not to share our thoughts?\u00a0 And what is wrong with sharing your values and beliefs if done in a non-accusatory, straightforward manner?\u00a0 Answer- nothing.\u00a0 It’s likely most of us would have never heard of George Floyd if not for social media.<\/p>\n
Is my white privilege showing because sometimes I just think about kittens and music and past vacations and NOT about all the racial hate out there?\u00a0 Am I just avoiding facing reality by wanting to spend time playing a stupid mobile game instead of working to help victims of violence or pandemics?\u00a0 Is it wrong to even consider writing about lighter topics right now?<\/p>\n
Where is the line between self care and being selfish?\u00a0 I’d like to think that the very fact I’m questioning it means I’m a ways from it yet.\u00a0 But am I just fooling myself? Or am I just paranoid?<\/p>\n
Does anyone have answers in 2020?\u00a0 Or are we all just struggling with our own set of questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Remember when social media was fun?\u00a0 When people only shared jokes and silly memes and family photos and no one talked about politics or world issues?\u00a0 \u00a0Remember when you just wanted to collect “friends” and didn’t care how well you actually knew them or if you knew anything about them? Then again, what other reason IS there for social media… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-myself"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t