Wait. Is LinkedIn So Boring, It's Good?, by Stephanie Hayes | Creators Syndicate

Fact: Opening any social media app means inviting mayhem into one’s life. Dramatic? Perhaps, but when world events become inflamed, as they are now, internet cohabitation goes especially bats. Let’s review the options: Elon Musk looked into the eyes of Twitter and said, “I am Dorian Gray and this is my portrait.” Now X, a once-vibrant online community, dies in real time as hate speech surges and confusion reigns. Across the home screen, Facebook is a chronically depressing stream of suspicious celebrity content mixed with real-life friends selling their used shoes for $15. Meanwhile, everyone on Instagram believes they are press secretaries, memeifying complex humanitarian crises to an ever-simplistic degree. The pressure to post a slide deck denouncing war in between recipes for chicken rollatini and horoscope jokes is absolutely bananas. On Instagram, the people really wait around for Kris Jenner’s take on the Middle East. TikTok is arguably the most fun place to hang online, but it’s also sinister. Scenario: I am enjoying a pleasant video of a British woman making Yorkshire puddings. Thirty seconds later, I’m in a deep hole of theories about how she possibly faked a terminal illness for cash. One time, I watched a TikTok
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