Social media is making us desensitized

The world is on fire but we don’t feel the heat anymore. Or at least that’s how it feels while doom scrolling on my phone in the middle of the night. With social media playing such a big role in our daily lives, it has become hard to not be aware whenever a major crisis is happening. But I find it’s also hard to care about it. Take the forest fires here in California for example, according to CAL FIRE the five biggest fires in our history happened between 2018 – 2021, but we don’t bat an eye at the … Continue reading Social media is making us desensitized