cannot tell if my brain has just been abnormally bad today, making me oversensitive to regular levels of ambient salt, or if I've been encountering a higher-and-more-distressing volume of anger/bitterness in spaces where I normally relax, about things which usually bring me joy
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example: for some people, ending any casual text/chat message/DM with a full stop means the speaker is somewhere on a scale from ambivalent to PISSED at their interlocutor - the diff between saying "really" and "Really." can be MASSIVE. BUT IT'S NOT A UNIVERSAL SYSTEM!!
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and BY THE SAME TOKEN - and this is a real honest Difficulty - *asking clearly for clarification is often viewed as hostile or sarcastic in and of itself*. why? because something something Internet Conventions something, a flat question devoid of obvious tone FEELS rude
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I'm straying away from my original topic here, but the POINT is that tone actually matters hugely to written conversation - can be the difference between a forum/platform feeling hostile or welcoming to newcomers - but tonal shifts are hard to make & interpret
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and thus today's conundrum, where I'm looking at my corners of the internet and honestly cannot tell if I'm having a bad mental health day independently or if everyone is just unusually angry in a way that's upsetting to me or of it's both, because internet
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and seeing as how mental health is kind of important to the general population, I wish we could have a productive conversation about tone/mood in the conversational internet and how it impacts us, without that conversation being hijacked by dudes who tell women to smile more
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ANYWAY. that was a rant of some kind and now I'm gonna go curl up and sleep
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