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Harmony Seeker
Harmony Seeker
@HarmonthSeeker@caneandable.social  ·  activity timestamp 10 months ago

You’re not imagining it—life is more overwhelming than it used to be.

Thirty years ago, we weren’t expected to be on 24/7.
Now, everything—news, work, education, friendship—flows through endless digital networks.

We scroll, refresh, reply, react.
There’s no pause. No buffer. No off-switch.

This is the Network Society.
Power no longer moves top-down—it moves through likes, clicks, and notifications.
Your attention is the commodity. Your nervous system is the casualty.

We weren’t built for this.
We evolved for rhythm, rest, and relationship—not for a life spent staring into the infinite scroll.

If you’re feeling scattered, anxious, or emotionally fried—you’re not broken.
You’re living in a system that rewards saturation over sanity.

Maybe the first step is naming it.
This isn’t just burnout. It’s digital trauma.

#DigitalFatigue #NetworkSociety #DigitalWellbeing #MentalHealth #RestIsResistance #SlowLiving #Connectivism #InformationOverload

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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I agree wholeheartedly with everything you're saying in this post, but at the risk of splitting hairs ...

@HarmonthSeeker
> This is the Network Society

I'm not convinced we got that yet. I would describe it as the Platform Society. Everything is deployed as-a-service, including government.

But power isn't any more distributed than it was before, in fact it's even more concentrated. Including power over the design of most of our digital tools. The fediverse prefigures a true Network Society.

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Harmony Seeker
Harmony Seeker
@HarmonthSeeker@caneandable.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@strypey yes, I see what you mean

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