Thread:Mesektet/@comment-26499804-20181011125622/@comment-3581997-20181015154849

Been there. You do not need to go off and live as a hermit. Find new friends instead. In general people are jerks, and if you are surrounded by jerks it is impossible to tell what you are doing wrong. I would discourage letting those sort of people matter to you. If they can not contribute to any sort of healthy discussion they are not serving their social function and should be terminated from your social circle. People do not change if they are not held accountable. Remove those who give you cause to hide in your shell. And remain yourself, just looking for others who sync with you. But be-wary.

George Orwell's 1984 speaks of a time when people each have their own little spheres of people who all agree with them and it conditions them to be cattle mindlessly being agreed with, kept separate by the slaughterers. In a world of social media both of those actions are much, much easier to reach. Remove those who do nothing but make your feel self-conscious and wrong. Seek out discourse but friendly discourse so you can grow, but not be labeled as the social bitch of the group.