The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"
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To be fair, social media is still very, very new onto the scene. When industry was new, it made life as a modern wage slave look heavily by comparison.
You've definitely hit the nail on the head. Social media has indeed brought together people from all corners of the globe in an unprecedented way, and it's pretty safe to say that it's had a profound impact on society and individuals alike.
It's incredible to think about how far we've come and how far we could go with connectivity. But at the same time, it's important to acknowledge the challenges and issues that come with it, especially when it comes to privacy and the spread of misinformation.
Social media put all the village idiots in one room together where their ludicrous ideas were amplified & where the rest of us treated them like harmless fools, until they weren’t harmless anymore, & by then the damage was done.
I have literally been saying for over 15 years that “social media” will be the catalyst to the end of the before times.
Hopefully there will be some after times.
Whole that's partly true, let's not pretend social media was ever some neutral forum - it always picked what topics were seen and what topics were hidden. Moderation is editorializing.
More like we proved Douglas Adams babelfish theory right: that if we had the ability to completely understand one another with no language barriers, we would be more likely to fight one another
as scary as times are, i feel lucky to have grown up at this specific point in history. if things do get better we'll never see anything like this again.
The internet allows the ignorant to be led by "influencers" of every description without having to think for themselves. They buy into slogans and silly hats thinking they're right. They don't know truth when it hits them..
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Hopefully there will be some after times.
Same energy but slower.
The result of Babel is that mankind got dispersed in all directions.
Damn' good idea.
Mostly vis a vis rura/culturally conservative political groups in counties where English is not particularly widespread.
Kinda makes sense.