Is Arguing The New Pastime?

I hate arguing and arguments. As humans, we will never all agree on the same things, but these days it seems like we no longer allow others to feel differently.

It doesn’t seem to matter what the topic is. In our current society, if we aren’t all the same, we are outcasts. What happened to celebrating our uniqueness?

It’s almost dangerous to express our opinions. Someone will take offense and begin arguing simply for the sake of arguing. And truly, I have had people say exactly that when approached about it. They argue simply to argue.

As a society, we aren’t as active as we should be. More of our time is spent in front of our screens, whether it be a laptop, tablet or phone. Our friends on social media are our new families. We ignore the people around us.

There have always been separations between people. Each of us has our own circle of people we call our own. However, today those circles are a lot smaller and a lot more fragile.

Best friends aren’t forever anymore. All it takes is a difference of opinion, and they are willing to shut each other out. Arguing with each other isn’t enough. They have to enlist others to join in their fight against someone else.

Social arguments are never one-on-one now. Instead, one will begin the argument, and each side will have its “armies” of friends hop on for support. People who aren’t even sure what they are arguing about are fighting entire wars online.

Apparently, it’s also not cool to just keep scrolling past things you don’t agree with anymore. Instead, you must take the time to stop and leave a remark contrary to what they posted. Because the random remark from a stranger is going to change everyone’s opinion.

Why do you think social media platforms are PUSHING for things in your feed that you never asked for? Do you really think the algorithm is set to show you what you want to see? Or do you recognize that it’s showing you things that are exactly what you do NOT agree with?

It’s more profitable for the social media platforms to have you engaged as long as possible. And if they can get you arguing with a stranger, you will stay longer than you intended.

The only way to break this is for us all to recognize the mind games and manipulation that they are using against us. We have to consciously recognize when we are being used and decide we won’t be used anymore.

This means NOT dropping that comment on a post from a page you didn’t even follow. Or scrolling past that remark that was put there intentionally to get emotions heated.

There are many better things to do to fill the hours that we already have so few of. We get 24 hours in our day. How much better to spend them spreading love and peace than fostering hatred.

Spread love, not hate. Who knows how much damage our words could cause to someone else?