I was reading about how misery loves company online (and offline) and how that shapes what we see on our social networks. It got me to thinking about how much work it takes to make your online world less toxic. For most people, they’re following just a few friends and several other people who they discovered online over the years. The longer you’ve been online the greater chance you’ve accumulated more people to follow than you can keep up with or manage to prune to get back to a manageable (and potentially less toxic) feed. Some people fall down some pretty scary rabbit holes and that’s where the real problems start. Most don’t even realize they’ve done so. Some of us likely know people like this or might even have close members of their own family who’ve fallen prey to what can appear to be well-informed sources of information which if you peel back the layers, falls apart quickly. As we spend more of our time in these spaces, it’s important to take a step back and think about how we’re using them to inform ourselves. Think about who we rely on for the information we use personally and at our jobs. Be careful out there. Let us know if you’ve had experience either falling down these rabbit holes or know someone who has. #TechCrunch Social #Digital Wellness 📱🧘