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Stop obsessing over social media

Note to self: Dear Glenn,  Give it a rest. Live your life. You’re old enough to remember when people didn’t constantly obsess over current events — when those holding public office didn’t have that much impact on your emotional state. You even remember when knowing someone disagreed with your politics was little more than a tidbit of trivia, not reason to work yourself into a froth.  After all, you’re a professor of communication, a field with Cultivation Theory as part of its foundation. George Gerbner did research in the 1960s finding a relationship between the amount of time people watched violent or disturbing programming and the extent to which they perceived the world as frightening. Yes, spending time consuming media you find alarming makes you perceive the world as meaner. Some questioned those studies back then, but is there any doubt that obsessively “doomscrolling” Twitter bums people out? 

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