I’ve seen many posts online in my lifetime. I like to check out the comments section every once in a while but sometimes I’ll see someone say “Who cares?” This one has always been weird to me. That person took time out of their day to say that. Why not just keep scrolling? Why waste your time saying that when you can find something you care about instead? There’s a lot more out there in the world and if you found things you care about, you’ll probably be happier when going online.

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I once posted something on Instagram about a thing I bought. I was just happy that I had the thing I wanted and just wanted it on Instagram. I didn’t expect other people to actually care. I just expected people to see it, maybe press like and/or put a comment of some sort and move on. Someone commented “who cares?” and while I wasn’t hurt by it at all, it did bother me a bit. Imagine doing that in real life. What if I was just walking around, smiling at the thing I bought, and someone just goes up to me and says to my face “Why should we care about this?” I never asked you to care about anything. What if I did that to you? That wouldn’t be nice to do, would it?

Most of the people who do this are pretty much internet trolls. I know there’s stuff in the world that I admit, don’t care about, but I’m not just going to ask why I should care about it. If I truly didn’t care about it, I would just keep scrolling and forget about it. Doing that doesn’t affect me or anyone else and everyone is still happy at the end of the day.