I don’t like a lot of what I see in public discourse.

Me either. What iced it for me was the OceanGate submarine disaster last year. Innocent people died in that sub, and within hours people I knew were making jokes about it on Facebook. Yes, it went on here too, but with this being anonymous it wasn't so offensive. But on Facebook, they were friends, family, coworkers all making these jokes. People I know in real life. I was so sickened and disgusted that I got off Facebook completely. I don't miss it at all.

You can call it algorithms, or whatever, but a lot of social media platforms seem to put people at each others' throats, saying and doing things they would never do in a face to face interaction-although anecdotally I think that might be changing as well. For the worse.

Some people, yes. But they were borderline and not considered appropriate. Now it's widespread among people I never expected to act that way. That's my point. It has coarsened the fabric of society, as they say. We are losing our humanity.

Well, that's a corollary to my point, for sure.

I avoided all talk about politics because it got so combative and nasty. But that attitude bled over into nearly everything.