BillyMack · 46-50, M
Social media is fine. At least how it was intended.
But then the end product is the user, the various social media apps do what they can to keep you on the site. The longer you’re using it, the more money they make. So they engineer it that way.
When the site is free, we are the product.
But then the end product is the user, the various social media apps do what they can to keep you on the site. The longer you’re using it, the more money they make. So they engineer it that way.
When the site is free, we are the product.
val70 · 51-55
On its own nothing at all. Depends on what you make of it. Personally, I can't stand so-called influencers. There goes a whole generation going a cropper one day if they don't adult up and accept there's actually far more than self. Like good old Bishop Ryle would say: faith alone isn't us. So there's actually no point seeing it as yet another vehicle to move us to where we want to be. It's the journey that's always more important
@val70 For some it's a tool, for another it's addictive. Its hard when you are addicted to see anything as a journey towards anything, it just becomes a tool to feed your addiction. I agree with you, faith alone isn't who you are, neither is addiction, and even faith is also just a tool of spirit looking for something beyond what they can grasp.
OogieBoogie · F
Yeeaaahhh, but youre assuming everyone has family and friends.
Social media can be terribly toxic, addictive and awful for ones mental health.....but conversely, can also help people thru crisis, trauma, isolation and make one feel heard, valued....even seen.
It is the modern double edged sword of society.
What you say can also be true of phones....computers, TV's, ....any sort of addiction really, even the seemingly harmless ones like getting fit, model making etc.
I know my dad lived in his shed - he was a workaholic
I know people who prefer to read, than go out
This is but a new tool that is only as good as its user. And the needs it satisfies are just as individual.
For some people who are homestuck, places like this give them a sociability that they could not otherwise have.
Social media can be terribly toxic, addictive and awful for ones mental health.....but conversely, can also help people thru crisis, trauma, isolation and make one feel heard, valued....even seen.
It is the modern double edged sword of society.
What you say can also be true of phones....computers, TV's, ....any sort of addiction really, even the seemingly harmless ones like getting fit, model making etc.
I know my dad lived in his shed - he was a workaholic
I know people who prefer to read, than go out
This is but a new tool that is only as good as its user. And the needs it satisfies are just as individual.
For some people who are homestuck, places like this give them a sociability that they could not otherwise have.
There is very little value in social media if it is overconsumed. It changes people's hearts and makes them cold and numb to the pain of others. When used as only a small part of the day, a few days a week, it can be a good way to understand people. I use this site to grow my very weak social skills. However, if I only had this site and not my family offline to interact with every day, I think this site (or any social media) would kill all that is good and kind inside me. Real interactions, offline, are much nicer and kinder to me. Still, I think some people only have the option to interact on social media, so maybe in that event, it would be better than nothing. 🤔
People live far apart. It costs money and time to visit in person. Not worth it to share a photograph. With Social Media you can instantly share the photo and talk about it, and it costs nothing.
Also you are open to an entire world of people sharing the same ideals and goals.
You can login in the middle of the night and start a discussion with a total stranger, like you. :)
Also you are open to an entire world of people sharing the same ideals and goals.
You can login in the middle of the night and start a discussion with a total stranger, like you. :)
@JamesBugman That's one take, but if I were to look towards feelings of social isolation, the feedback would say now is higher than ever. I get it, they just haven't met you 🙂
recall the history of the web and you will understand the meaning
initially the web was intended for the transfer of information from one person to another
then software bots began to be created
now it's bots
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modern social media has no real value but society has developed a habit of seeking social contacts on the web
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it's more complicated than that but that's roughly how it is
initially the web was intended for the transfer of information from one person to another
then software bots began to be created
now it's bots
_
modern social media has no real value but society has developed a habit of seeking social contacts on the web
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it's more complicated than that but that's roughly how it is
@Margot Yes I know the history, I was on the web in 1994. It was really first invented so the military could send messages. Social media would not have even been a thought then. I'm not going down that quagmire in thought, but they'd love having access to information like they do now.
I was talking in a more of a social perspective, but heck while you point it out... most of us now rely upon companies and technology once started by the military.
I was talking in a more of a social perspective, but heck while you point it out... most of us now rely upon companies and technology once started by the military.
@awildsheepschase from a social perspective the purpose of registering on social networks is the need to 'belong to a group for social identification' and 'search for useful resources through social connections'
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
@FloorGenAdm Or back when in wartimes they would send a telegram. I have a photograph of my grandfather with a pigeon on his head and also a copy of the letter because he was determined not fit for duty (eyesight) so he was left tending letters and telegrams. Once he was done, he would write every night to my grandmother finding secret codes.
I don't think SW is gonna give you that kind of help even on friend's line.
I don't think SW is gonna give you that kind of help even on friend's line.
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
@awildsheepschase I thought this was about social media not only SW.
@FloorGenAdm It is, I have many thoughts about social media but I have kept myself away from a lot of social media, so I'm a little biased in how I talk.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@SunshineGirl You're practical in thought and I agree with you. Yet I see it as a symbol for how people don't talk in real life and more than we know impedes what we hope from life.
That's just my take.
That's just my take.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@awildsheepschase Although perhaps it sometimes gives a louder voice to those who would otherwise have been excluded from real life.
@SunshineGirl Yes I know that value, like I would never have been able to talk with you... And in theory, thinking of culture and movements, even though they did arise earlier largely in history they can move on a dime these days (right or wrong)
caccoon · 36-40
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jackjjackson · M
A site like this allows one to get things off one’s chest that if said in RL (except by radical lefties) could get one in real trouble if said to wife, family friends, etc.
jackjjackson · M
Yet here we all are.