Poll: Social Media: Good or Bad? (no politics)
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W800
Noob
Agreed. I like the amount of moderation here.
When people start arguing about politics it turns into the "cant politics of the inconsequential" that Wolin talks about. None of it matters. In the very end all that matters is money, and who has it. It's been this way since money was invented.
Politics is like "hey look, a squirrel!" All the while everyone is reaching into your mind and wallet.
People don't see the big picture because it's uncomfortable to realize that we are basically grist for a mill that profits from us. The mill is more like a leviathan and has no politics in itself. It just does whatever earns the most $$ for shareholders. It's also not some grand conspiracy. People can't even agree on lunch, let alone on how to fleece the working class.
Rather, it's a (documented) feature of the system and has to do with the fact that corporations are required to maximize shareholder value.
Pushrod
Well-known member
No one remembers rural party-line telephone service?
That was the original social media. Busy bodies always listening in on private conversations then spreading gossip during Wednesday evening fellowship down at the Baptist church. Getting cut-eyes at the bakery or diner cause everyone knew who you were boinking.
Times don't change, people don't change. Only technology changes (Alvin Tofler in 'Future Shock')
That was the original social media. Busy bodies always listening in on private conversations then spreading gossip during Wednesday evening fellowship down at the Baptist church. Getting cut-eyes at the bakery or diner cause everyone knew who you were boinking.
Times don't change, people don't change. Only technology changes (Alvin Tofler in 'Future Shock')
Eldritch
is insensitive
And one must remember that the working class are Shareholders...
Agent Orange
The b0y ninja
Nextdoor is a prime example of giving social media to a group of people who for the better part of the lives were used to communicating face to face and now resort to passive aggressive behavior and childish tit-for-tat antics.
Eldritch
is insensitive
:dunno These reports also seem to reflect the statement. The working class all have their retirement tied up very heavily in the Market.
byke
Well-known member
People have also used Nextdoor to change the dynamic of their relationships with their neighbors, in that, what we tolerate from friends is very different from what we tolerate from people we don't really know. Ignorance is bliss, good fences make good neighbors, etc.
Bigger problem than the medium, imo, are the societal trends which make people more comfortable with expressing their inner idiot, because the idiot is no longer an idiot in this there-are-no-wrong-answers-everyone-gets-a-trophy society. Additionally, the emotion of shame is virtually extinct.
Dumb + confidence = murica.
Bigger problem than the medium, imo, are the societal trends which make people more comfortable with expressing their inner idiot, because the idiot is no longer an idiot in this there-are-no-wrong-answers-everyone-gets-a-trophy society. Additionally, the emotion of shame is virtually extinct.
Dumb + confidence = murica.
W800
Noob
Truth!
W800
Noob
I agree. I also think the algorithms encourage asshattery. People crave attention.
wazzuFreddo
WuTang is 4 the children
Nextdoor is ridiculous :laughing
It gets even more ridiculous in a small town, like where my parents live, where nothing is happening. People sir up nonsense because they are bored.
It gets even more ridiculous in a small town, like where my parents live, where nothing is happening. People sir up nonsense because they are bored.
I don’t want to name names, but that Flintstone’s cartoon character dead Godfather son young man was walking his drunken little bear, Ruxpin, and someone saw that filthy thing pee on that blight of the neighborhood’s dead lawn strip. You know the owner. The one who’s name rhymes with Menace Spudman. Anyway, I’ll bet that filthy little bear has been killing that lawn strip for years. Nasty little bear probably set California ablaze with his smelly cigarette too. :x
W800
Noob
Lol, I think social media is more like a millennial who confuses real life with Fetlife and as a result mistakes a stick shifter for a butt plug, accidentally putting a parked car into neutral and sending it flying down the side of a cliff at terminal velocity while WAP is playing at full volume on a 2000 watt car stereo they purchased on a secured credit card at 25 percent interest, while recording all of it for their "only fans" account.
Sad part is that I would probably pay to see it if they didn't get hurt.
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While that may, or may not be true... at least they’re authentically living an authentic life with authenticity. :thumbup
W800
Noob
Their "best life!"
I hate that phrase LOL. By definition we are all living our best lives!!!
I feel like an old cranky dude a lot. I think this happens to every generation too.
That being said, the idea that nothing can be better than it is, at that moment, is ancient.
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"When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer.
“Give me the best piece of meat you have,” said the customer.
“Everything in my shop is the best,” replied the butcher. “You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best.”
"At these words Banzan became enlightened."
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Existentialism - essentially “Be where you’re at when you’re there” In other words... Be present. Kinda hard to do though, what with a cell phone in your hand. Maybe I’m being unfair. He’d be present to the entire world, just not the people he’s with. So confusing.
Climber
Well-known member
NextDoor isn't ridiculous, but people on it can be.
The one in our neighborhood is just fine. Yeah, there are a very small number of people who are asses, but when you don't feed the Trolls they don't dominate your social media.