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After coming back from a friends birthday party, I said to myself, I need to learn a few dance moves.

So I searched on IG, watched and liked a few simply from curiosity. Then the algorithm started sending me more, and more. It was wonderful.

Flip that and you’re Zelda. You look at one or several and you get more (Robin Williams gets clicks, don’t you know).

Eventually the number of recommended dance videos fell off. But by then I had followed a few, so men dancing still show up from time to time.

They say you’re not to read the criticism or comments if you’re a writer. I thought it was just because they’re depressing. But also engaging with someone else’s vitriol is like getting an infection and just recalling the most awful of words will reinfect your psyche.

All this to say it’s not just evil people making sickening content. There’s good things coming through that pipe—Remember to put the phone down and go outside once in a while. And prolly think before you share. Yeah. That too.