What is Hopequesting

You’re not doomscrolling, you’re hopequesting.  You need those tiny pieces of joy from seeing friends and strangers share their art, their good news, their wacky unique selves.  We need light to live.  And we find it in each other

Aaron Corwin

As the quote spells out, it’s the opposite of a popular pasttime, Doomscrolling. One might argue, the algorithm is the one serving me negativity. Truthfully, it morphs and changes based on content we engage with. For various reason, social media platforms want their users to stay on their apps for as long as possible. To make it happen, they’ll utilize paid ads, content creators, and their users family. How do they use your family & friends? Smartphones that are within close regular proximity of each other communicate without direct interaction from the user (you). If you’re curious about it, Netflix has an interesting documentary callee The Social Dikenma.

Isn’t that crazy how your environment impacts your apps. If we want adjust your news feed, there are ways to do it.

1. Search For Things You Actually Like

Don’t give your apps so much control of what you see. It may ask you what you like in the beginning, but it’ll shift gears overtime. Get in the habit of searching Social Media like we use Google. You may night find exactly what your looking for, but it’ll show the algorithm your interests are changing.

2. Block Content or Creators

This may seem odd, but some creators pay apps for Sponsored Posts. What does that mean? These app prioritize paid post over accounts you actually follow. Consider them targeted ads. It could be a keyword brings them to your feed. Possibly a trending theme that’ll hit your feed whether you like it or not. Regardless of how it got there, you can block it. After all, you can’t unfollow someone you weren’t following from the start.

3. Restrict What You See

If blocking seems too extreme, you can limit how often you see content from specific accounts. If it’s only a post or two, just restrict those posts. You’re not flagging it. So you aren’t causing harm to the original poster. You just dont have negative content interrupting your hopequest.

Final Thoughts

It may seem like hunting the good stuff online takes more work then we’d like, but your worth the effort. For a majority of people, Social Media is a part of their daily lives. If it’s becoming a toxic place, why not take the steps to improve the view.