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Devin Townsend

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Importance of Being Online

I'm curious what you think well-being means when we choose to be online. Is there well-being online? I don't know because the thing is that you're performing a version of yourself. This platforms are designed to appeal to what's called higher arousal emotions. That's anger and anxiety. So it's designed against sound mental health. The best type of wellbeing you can have online is to know when to stay away from it. Like with Twitter in particular, the best way, it's what you don't say. You're not going to find mental health online, let's. But anything whereby you're performing an avatar of yourself should never happen. If someone disagrees with you

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