The anger that is getting spewed around on social media by my normally perfectly civilized friends is really getting concerning. None of them are threatening anyone or anything but you can feel the anger right through their posts. Some might call it passion, I suppose, but it really seems seriously overblown.
I feel like it all went from “I want someone to hear me” to “Why aren’t you listening?” and now “I’m going to scream until you hear me!”. I know that we all want to be heard but getting nasty with people isn’t the way to go about it. There’s also a very unsettled feeling coming from all of them.
Do they have anything in common? I keep asking myself that over and over. Why are they all acting like this? The current pandemic situation is stressful for all of us. So what’s different with these three? One of them does have a right to be mad at the world but even this seems to be coming from a different place.
Maybe there will be a new term for it coming soon. “Social Media Rage” or “Media Malfunction” or “Media Overload”. I don’t know but it’s weird whatever it is and I hope they all come out of it soon.
COVID rage?
“Don’t worry. It’s just their COVID instability showing.” We will begin thinking it’s “normal”.
I hope they can all take a chill pill.