My golden rule for social media: talk trash to your heart’s content, but do it in private | James Greig

The impulse to vent about others is hard to resist. The trick is to do it without hurting anyone

Some friends of mine, a couple working from home together, have reacted to the boredom of lockdown by turning their hairless cat into a workplace antagonist, muttering darkly about his behaviour from the other side of the room. The impulse to invent enemies runs deep. And now that our entire social lives have been reduced to the domestic and online spheres, there's a lot of dark energy going around. And it has to find an outlet somewhere.

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