why we need down votes and dislikes in social media.
for the longest time i had no fucking clue what a "ratio" on twitter even was. then i googled it. a ratio is basically when there is way more comments than likes. then my second thought was "wait that is a bad thing ? isn't the point of social media is to.... socialize? have a good discussion ?" then i remembered twitter is a toxic cesspool of the worst people online. on twitter there is no "downvote and move on", you HAVE to make a comment, or on the opposite side of the coin, you HAVE to be exposed to verbal abuse and scum. contradictory, reading these is incredibly addicting, making a controversial opinion and entertaining yourself watching people argue is addicting and does not promote growth. if you had a bad opinion and people downvoted you, then its an easy indicator to tell you went wrong. A number is not as hurtful as a string of personalized attacks. but comments? comments were made for discussion, so you are mixing the good and the bad together, promoting addiction and the lack of self improvement. It damages your mental health, for we were not meant to be exposed to that much negative attention (or attention in general to be fair). the moral of this story is that twitter is the same thing as heroin and that youtube's dislike policy is full of horse piss.
