Does social media do more harm than good?
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People freaked right out when we switched from knowledge passed down orally to the written word. Nobody knew what the hell to do. Socrates hated reading and writing because he thought it devalues knowledge.
We're in another transition from shifting from written knowledge to digital knowledge. People are really bad at communicating ideas on the Internet. It'll get better with generations that grow up with it.
We're in another transition from shifting from written knowledge to digital knowledge. People are really bad at communicating ideas on the Internet. It'll get better with generations that grow up with it.
Yes. It is what drives the mob mentality. It also worsens the "make a false story with a headline" and then share it even worse. Too many memes and chain posts get believed this way not to mention it breeds narcissism.
just brings out the stupid for everyone to see...faster than ever before. stupid people saying stupid crap is nothing new
I think the whole Internet does more harm than good.
Instead of kids playing outside they are glued to computers. Gives criminals an anonymous attack method.
Instead of kids playing outside they are glued to computers. Gives criminals an anonymous attack method.
Social media is creating zombies. The narcissism and psychology behind some of these younger people is scary. The sound bite news story is becoming the reality to most people.
IMO it's definitely causing more harm than good. it's also desensitized most people to a great extent.
I'd go back to green screen computers and some stick ball in a second if I could. I'm glad I can say I was the last generation that knows what it was like without it. These kids today are lost.
IMO it's definitely causing more harm than good. it's also desensitized most people to a great extent.
I'd go back to green screen computers and some stick ball in a second if I could. I'm glad I can say I was the last generation that knows what it was like without it. These kids today are lost.
I've got a friend who's wife has literally drove herself insane over the last decade through social media. She's daily deleting a Facebook profile, restarting it, deleting people, asking them to be friends 3 days later etc.
The scary part is her profile. Probably 4 dozen pictures of just herself, and she's got 5 kids now. I walked into their house last summer and the b***** had pictures of herself all over the house. Straight out of a horror movie. I told my boy to get that girl some help. Some dam lithium or something.
Still think a knife to his back is coming one day.
No.
One day day social media will replace the need for human nutrition.
Adam: "Ya know Steve, I'm starting to get hungry"
Steve: "Just log into Facebook"
It's made me realize I don't like some of my friends as much as I thought I did.
GREAT TAKE, GLEN. Sounds like you need to find the delete button on your social media doo hickey
I've thought about it. I only use Facebook so I just unfollow.
Why not just get off totally? If it's not tied to your work or a source of picking up p****, then why even have it?
Parents mainly. And there are some on there that use it properly that it is good way to keep up with that I wouldn't otherwise.
The only social media I do is anti-social media called HermitBook. It is just as narcissistic as Facebook and lots of work. We just don't have any friends or let anyone see our pages.
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Glen. Call your mom.
I can imagine her sitting on the couch right at this moment.
"If only my little Gleny would call me instead of sending me cat photos and instant messages on the computer"
Empowerment to idiots : Social Media circa 2008
Downfall of US Politics: "Rock the Vote" circa1990
Downfall of US Politics: "Rock the Vote" circa1990
Social media is gasoline , it ignites simple brush fires into raging infernos .
In about 50 years or so it won't matter, as there won't be many people alive that knew life without social media. The differences are most glaring for those of us that are in the about 35-50 y/o range because we've fully experienced both lifestyles as adults.
This is anecdotal but it seems to me that youth and high school sports have declined significantly compared to what it used to be like. I remember what it was like when I played. I've been to high school sports in a couple of stats in recent years and it's nothing like it used to be.
The Internet plays a part in that, I assume.
I got rid of the "Oh, we were in 6th grade together" crowd that I never speak to and it's just family and close friends.
If you want to see the gutter of society, go to topix. In small towns, it's just the lowest of trash badmouthing someone they're envious of it seems.
This is unrelated but was it you whose first post was "Natural selection" after two kids got killed by a train?
That always stood out to me. It was a long time ago though.
I see it as more of a technology change than social change. Facebook and Twitter have just simplified social information.
Just read about a woman in Cincinnati that claims to have witnessed a Target employee insulting an overweight woman with Down syndrome. The woman posted a long story on fb about how a male associate called the woman a "fat retard with bumps all over her face". She tried to alert a manager, but not one person at the store would do anything about it, none of them. Even went so far as to say that she was "only one customer and she didn't really matter"
Of course within the hour, the post had gone viral with countless threats of boycotts from around the country. Fast forward a day or two and apparently Target HQ, the local news outlets, nor the Greater Cincinnati Down Syndrome Assoc. can reach the accuser for comment.
It's pretty wild to witness this mob mentality in real-time. People foaming at the mouth over two as yet unproven paragraphs written by some person they've never met. Maybe it turns out to be true, maybe it doesn't.
Of course within the hour, the post had gone viral with countless threats of boycotts from around the country. Fast forward a day or two and apparently Target HQ, the local news outlets, nor the Greater Cincinnati Down Syndrome Assoc. can reach the accuser for comment.
It's pretty wild to witness this mob mentality in real-time. People foaming at the mouth over two as yet unproven paragraphs written by some person they've never met. Maybe it turns out to be true, maybe it doesn't.
I like knowing who the dipshits are. It's a nice prescreener for interactions in person, imo.
"Oh, that idiot graduated to "anti-vaxxer" level. Good to know."
"Oh, that idiot graduated to "anti-vaxxer" level. Good to know."
My guess is a higher percentage of kids spent most of their down time playing sports when we were coming up instead of sharing videos, twattering stupid thoughts or using snapchat to make their faces look like dogs all day.
I was a marginal athlete at best, but spent seemingly every waking minute that I wasn't playing school sports shooting hoops, playing driveway pickup games, playing HR derby at the neighborhood park, playing tackle football without pads on the weekends in the fall, etc. And this is how my circle of friends spent our time before we got old enough to chase poon and buzzes.
As for social media, it's the definition of a double-edged sword to me. It can draw attention to things that likely would've gone unnoticed or allow a community to come together for a good cause. It also turns mole hills into mountains and allows you to see how trashy some of the people you know really are. My biggest beef is the mass distribution of misinformation, disinformation and untruths in meme form from ultra slanted political sites like LiberalAndProud or ConservativeTribune. I'm big on accuracy even if it's about something I agree with.
If your name is mentioned in a thread there you're 100 percent dirt-bag trash.
Also, I read my hometown's topix page once a week as a guilty pleasure.
Let's talk about ppl with joint Facebook accounts...that screams miserable life
I do too. Yea If someones name is mentioned it's OV. Doesn't matter if half the board even knows the person, you're gonna get hit with gay, on drugs, homeless, or even dead.
My dad is a probation officer nowadays (mailman for 40 years) and his name ends up on it constantly. When my Grandfather was mayor of our town of 20,000 our whole family was the topic of discussion daily.
The one from my hometown is people "ratting out" the pill heads, people bitching about the local cops, who went to jail and a rundown of "Who cheatin' on they man/girl"
And the sentence construction on topix is just [sick]
Second reply: His girl be a ho two.
Third reply: THIS IS TOMMY LYNCH. WHY DONT YALL HATERZ SAY THAT **** TO MY FACE!!