CMV: Advice like “the internet is not real life” and sayings similar to it are increasingly becoming outdated if not already are.
Obviously it was true in the past, and people should spend manage their time online, but with how interconnected everyone has been with mobile devices, and the streamlining and centralization of the modern internet due to social media, it’s not as effective to say things like that anymore to try and comfort or help others.
Look at how terms like “chud” and “-maxxing” suffixes are used everywhere online now by people who dont even know where said words came from.
Im in college and I’ve straight up heard people in my life, strangers and friends use this type of terminology casually, and these arent shut-ins, theyre regular people who have social lives.
This isn’t the 2000s anymore where the internet was left in the computer lab or home office. We have a computer in our pocket that we interact with daily, and you’re telling me that it doesn’t impact the outside world and how people act in it now? Especially after the pandemic?
Saying this advice is not helpful, it’s an empty platitude that’s boils down to “go away, i dont care about your argument or worries.” We need to accept that people are massively online now and that bleeds heavily into the real world, and work from there instead of denying it.