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Should all social media be destroyed?

Should all social media be destroyed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 81 75.0%

  • No

    Votes: 21 19.4%

  • It has failed because it was never correctly tried

    Votes: 6 5.6%
  • Total voters
    108
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There's nothing social about social media. Used it very briefly till I saw the uselessness of it, as well as the effects it had on people's interaction with others.

The internet is great for a few things for me: YouTube, forums, looking up detailed information about subjects, archival purposes, and...women.

Nothing more.
 
it is what it is, just don't become a like or subscribe whore and you'll be fine

set your privacy levels and enjoy your family and friends
 
Google the benefits of Social Media and what does almost every list have in common. The benefits are are business/consumer-related yet social media is used primarily for non business/consumer-related things.

I guess that makes perfect sense for me and why I don't really use/participate aside from NeoGaf, the only business I'm generally interested in is Video Games
 
Eh. I don't know. I don't know enough about social media to know it should be destroyed. I only have a hardon hatred for, like, the 24 hour news cycle and propaganda bullshit click articles spewed out at interminable rates. Social media can be a force for good but tbh I know little enough that I don't even know if this is a pipe dream.
 
Something worse would replace it, like linking our minds into a digital hive and perceiving one another's thoughts and emotions in real time.

The veil of individuality would be torn. Humanity would become something else.

So nah, let the blue checkmarks declare to all watchers how stupid they are. Let people with too much time on their hands screech on Facebook and internet forums because it keeps them lazy, too lazy to do anything of any real value in the real world.

Humanity has suffered from alcoholism for thousands of years. I don't see how we're gonna kick the habit for this newly-invented dopamine tool in just a few generations. Let the "mediaholics" OD and go braindead and not breed and eventually die in their self-inflicted agony. That would be the pragmatic way, but I do feel sadness and compassion for people who are truly lost in a digital reality.

Social media tools are wonderful. We should keep using them and improving them as much as we can.
 
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DunDunDunpachi said:
Something worse would replace it, like linking our minds into a digital hive and perceiving one another's thoughts and emotions in real time.

The veil of individuality would be torn. Humanity would become something else.

So nah, let the blue checkmarks declare to all watchers how stupid they are. Let people with too much time on their hands screech on Facebook and internet forums because it keeps them lazy, too lazy to do anything of any real value in the real world.

Humanity has suffered from alcoholism for thousands of years. I don't see how we're gonna kick the habit for this newly-invented dopamine tool in just a few generations. Let the "mediaholics" OD and go braindead and not breed and eventually die in their self-inflicted agony. That would be the pragmatic way, but I do feel sadness and compassion for people who are truly lost in a digital reality.

Social media tools are wonderful. We should keep using them and improving them as much as we can.
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no. don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

we are just in the baby stages right now. for tens of thousands of years, we lived in isolated bubbles, alienated from one another.

then, over a decade or so, we quickly gained the ability to instantly and freely communicate to any person on the planet. that is HUGE. expecting everyone to get along in perfect harmony is absurd, there will be some social growing pains, in fact, we are dealing with them right now.

its such a monumental paradigm shift that it caught us off guard. whereas previously you may go your entire life never hearing from a feminist, you are now confronted by a million feminist takes at once. every second of every day every single news item or documented occurence is discussed and prodded by every ideology on the planet. instant transparency. the result is a Culture Clash. two previously isolated cultures awkwardly getting over their newfound closeness. multiply this by every single faction you can imagine: race, gender, geography, culture, etc. people from all over the world with vastly different experiences now coming together. that is new. the speed of it is new. all of this is brand new.

we are in growing pains right now. give it a few decades. after hearing the same bad faith troll takes for the thousandth time, we will all know how to deal with them, and ignore them. social media is a skill that the entire world is deficient in but we will get better and better at it.
 
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no. don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

we are just in the baby stages right now. for tens of thousands of years, we lived in isolated bubbles, alienated from one another.

then, over a decade or so, we quickly gained the ability to instantly and freely communicate to any person on the planet. that is HUGE. expecting everyone to get along in perfect harmony is absurd, there will be some social growing pains, in fact, we are dealing with them right now.

its such a monumental paradigm shift that it caught us off guard. whereas previously you may go your entire life never hearing from a feminist, you are now confronted by a million feminist takes at once. every second of every day every single news item or documented occurence is discussed and prodded by every ideology on the planet. instant transparency. the result is a Culture Clash. two previously isolated cultures awkwardly getting over their newfound closeness. multiply this by every single faction you can imagine: race, gender, geography, culture, etc. people from all over the world with vastly different experiences now coming together. that is new. the speed of it is new. all of this is brand new.

we are in growing pains right now. give it a few decades. after hearing the same bad faith troll takes for the thousandth time, we will all know how to deal with them, and ignore them. social media is a skill that the entire world is deficient in but we will get better and better at it.
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My brother. You get it.

The new 'Roman roads' are being paved and we are learning how to drive on them without crashing too often into one another. Once we get the hang of it, an explosion of ideas and knowledge will occur.
 
I despise it and have many regrets becoming part of it.

I like sticking to old fashioned forums like NeoGAF.
 
EightBit Man said:
There's nothing social about social media. Used it very briefly till I saw the uselessness of it, as well as the effects it had on people's interaction with others.

The internet is great for a few things for me: YouTube, forums, looking up detailed information about subjects, archival purposes, and...women.

Nothing more.
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I use the net for work and school, but I generally agree.
Social media isn't even social media. It's a marketing research platform that takes information and makes money off of it.. It's also given people that are completely inept in every other aspect of their life a soapbox to scream out their inane shit.

I used to think that it was this great idea that allowed people all over the world to be able to communicate and share ideas. In actuality, it's become a place where ideologues feel emboldened to say their nonsense and cloister themselves with likeminded weirdos. It's all echo chambers and screeching. If that's the future, I'll stay in the past.
 
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not all social media is equal. Facebook uses a different alorithm and has a different userbase than Twitter, than Insta, than TikTok, and so on. i do think some services like Twitter are genuinely inherently toxic, that the way they promote data drives toxicity. but they will pass and better things will come along. i remember Friendster and Myspace. i remember BBSes. IMO the ideal social media network is decentralized, possibly an entirely separate system from the current internet. someday we'll get there.

mainstream media, Old Media, plays a large role in disturbing these new social media spaces. they see Youtube as a threat, hence they are always decrying those platforms. there is something massively democratizing about Youtube, it basically gives everyone in the world their own TV channel, which they can broadcast from 24/7 for free to anywhere. this represents a great threat towards the status quo.

suddenly the mainstream newspapers and tv pundits don't control the popular conversation anymore. they have lost their grip on the Narrative. they are scared that we know there really isn't much separating us from them. the YT channel just reading a story someone else wrote is not that different from a "real anchor" just reading a story someone else wrote. you even get it without the heavy corporate influence. really the only thing old media has left is their "authority" which has historically controlled the Narrative. the whole Trump fiasco was largely historic journalist LARPing, thinking back to the glory days where a newspaper could take down Nixon. this belief in the godly powers of the media was mythologized in The Post and millions of jornalists and wanna be's spent years buying into this. it's the psyche of the elite intellectual class trying to look like they are doing something really important, all the while going down in a sinking ship.

IMO a lot of the anti-fan, anti-gamer SJW sentiment comes from corporate media desperately trying to maintain a grip on the Narrative. they have many true believers and converts among us, constantly promoting media narratives, pushing them above all others. this is truly what needs to be destroyed. to that effect, some of the more corporate-friendly social media platforms, like Twitter, which is basically a networking hub for spies and journalists, deserve to be burned. they don't need to be actively killed though, i think people naturally get sick of the worse systems and leave them in the dust. just look at Myspace, etc...
 
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#Phonepunk# said:
IMO a lot of the anti-fan, anti-gamer SJW sentiment comes from corporate media desperately trying to maintain a grip on the Narrative. they have many true believers and converts among us, constantly promoting media narratives, pushing them above all others. this is truly what needs to be destroyed. to that effect, some of the more corporate-friendly social media platforms, like Twitter, which is basically a networking hub for spies and journalists, deserve to be burned. they don't need to be actively killed though, i think people naturally get sick of the worse systems and leave them in the dust. just look at Myspace, etc...
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Hard to disagree with some of these points.
 
At this point I want more of it. A lot more. I want to see people go apeshit over the most inane stuff. I want more insanity.

I dont use it but I enjoy seeing people flip their shit over the dumbest stuff.
 
Yes.

The internet should be an alternate reality separate from your "real" life and the "real" world, the idea of trying to blend reality with the internet has ended in total disaster.

Going back to the days of Myspace it always made me uncomfortable to put my real name, photo and location on the internet, it just seemed wrong and dangerous to me, you should have an online persona separate from your real life.
 
don't give a sh!t about FB or twitter but youtube and instagram r iight nah mean :) lol chicks be posting try on hauls and pics of themselves in bikinis and working out and what they eat in a day to help other chicks get hot gotta thank instagram and youtube 4 that. lotta hilarious vids on youtube as well. social media platforms that enable ppl to be creative and make it easier for them to share their work is a plus as well lotta good artists on youtube/instagram
 
Keep an eye on the studies tying social media use to increases in loneliness and depression. It may be too soon to draw any firm conclusions but it's not looking good.
 
No social media is in it's early stages of development still. Give it time and as unpopular it may be, Social media needs a level of moderation. It won't be perfect but it needs a bare minimum.
 
If extra terrestrial life exists and they see what humanity is based off of the internet and social media, I have no doubt they either pass us by or decide to wipe us out.

I don't see how they could find anything of value from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter or random videos of humans mating.

If we get lucky they might decide we are so dumb that they take us in as pets, like trained chimpanzees or canines.

Social media has become more media than social, and it seems to be affecting everyone. It's everything everyone hates, a few at the top are controlling everyone, but nobody sees through it like they supposedly see through everything else.
 
I get nothing but positive things out of social media. Interact with hobby groups, made friends, never been murdered, etc.
 
I use Facebook in the same style I use forums like this. Just browsing some groups for my interests..
Nobody I know posts anything on Facebook anyway anymore.
 
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