You're here, on Earth, to increase your love and understanding of people, self and reality.
Excessive screen-starting separates us from people. "Social media" is really anti-social because we're not attending to the people in our community, we're attending to a screen, worshiping the image (of the Beast) instead of appreciating reality.
So if you were to shut off media, news, social media for the rest of your life, you do just fine.
Media, as the word implies is an imposition (med-ia, something in the middle) between self and reality. That's why it's full of pretense. Much of what you see there is paid for, used to make money, gain attention, spread negative beliefs and override your sense of self and reality. Most "news" doesn't tell us "what is happening", but what some agenda-driven or fearful news-editor happens to be focused on, among the millions of things one could focus on. I use social media to post the kind of "news" I'd like to focus on and in this way, social media can be beneficial - to introduce narratives and ideas that are not featured by the powers that be.
As for negative vs. positive ideas:
No awareness of evil makes people gullible, naive, un-discerning, weak.
No awareness of good makes people bitter, paranoid, hard and unloving.
A healthy ratio is 70% good (wholesome, healthy, useful, practical, interesting) , 30% bad (difficult, problem, evil, exposing corruption). The best "bad" to focus on is the bad you can personally change, heal or pivot to the good. If you feel weak, increase awareness of goodness beyond 70%.
Exposing bad stuff without accountability/justice doesn't do much except create apathy. When exposing bad, there should be suggestions on what to DO about it.
Media/SocialMedia is mostly low-consciousness (pretense, lies, distortions, exaggeration, blame) because that's the condition of humanity.
Some of it is interesting/helpful. A good internet vs. real-life ratio is 80% to 20%, but I know that a whole lot of people have it the other way around. Not my problem.
What's good for you depends on your intentions. If your intention is to research, you'll do good spending more time online. If your intention is to develop love, you'll do good spending more time with real people.
Mr. Fred
How are you?
In my country, social media is full of negative news all the time. On the other hand, if I ignore all this news, I feel that I might become unaware of what's happening around me. It would be as if those events don't exist in my world.
is this the right way?