I've had a similar experience growing up with the Internet.
For social media, I always remind myself of the quote:
> "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
It's just a competition of narratives. You have to be educated enough to see through their interests and rethoric to understand where they actually come from.
What sucks is the addictive element of it.
A positive outcome of all this is a sense of meaninglessness that helped push me towards what is actually important in life:
- We are vicegerents of this earth, we have to build and contribute to our present and our the future. We're all headed towards the same certain destination, and it's not worth it substituting it for what is transient.
