{"id":32095,"date":"2017-03-19T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32095"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:44:54","slug":"qotd-social-media-and-the-mentally-unbalanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/19\/qotd-social-media-and-the-mentally-unbalanced\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Social media and the mentally unbalanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I should also add here that, in my limited experience, social media is God\u2019s gift to grandiose psychiatric patients. None of them are \u201ca guy with a Facebook page\u201d. They\u2019re all \u201csocial media celebrities with hundreds of followers\u201d. It\u2019s always \u201cYOU CAN\u2019T DO THIS TO ME! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I HAVE HUNDREDS OF FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER! EVEN [NAME OF TWITTER PERSON I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF] FOLLOWS ME! THIS IS GOING TO GO VIRAL!\u201d One patient even told me, in a threatening manner, that his blog had over a thousand hits. \u201cYou mean a day?\u201d I asked. \u201cNo, total,\u201d he answered. Then he wondered why I was so utterly failing to look impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2015\/07\/03\/the-case-of-the-famous-physicist\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Case Of The Famous Physicist&#8221;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2015-07-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should also add here that, in my limited experience, social media is God\u2019s gift to grandiose psychiatric patients. None of them are \u201ca guy with a Facebook page\u201d. They\u2019re all \u201csocial media celebrities with hundreds of followers\u201d. It\u2019s always \u201cYOU CAN\u2019T DO THIS TO ME! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I HAVE HUNDREDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57,28,41],"tags":[204,139,593],"class_list":["post-32095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-blogging","tag-psychology","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8lF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32096,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095\/revisions\/32096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}