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    10 months ago

    It’s almost like trying to run the world on social media was a shit tier idea.

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      10 months ago

      It was a good way to offload responsibility for something actually working.

      With social media the unreliability card has been played (by us, asocial nerds, killjoys and neckbeards) and beaten (by them, normal sane social successful people) 10+ years ago, so even when it’s a serious role being discussed, that card can’t be played again.

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        10 months ago

        It worked pretty well for what it was created to do, then corporations and governments thought they could profit off of it. I assume they were also concerned that people were starting to talk about things they didn’t want people to talk about, like their penchant for buying and selling children.

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          10 months ago

          It worked pretty well for what it was created to do

          Which is the unknown variable in this conversation.

          Say, for my ends social media never worked well.

          It pains me to communicate with many (by my measure) friends and acquaintances, knowing that those are basically DMs on a site ran by somebody and hundreds (or maybe thousands) of employees can just read those DMs. Writing personal things there, because people refuse to be worried about being likely eavesdropped on.

          In general the worst prison is the one you’ve built for yourself and locked yourself in. And to learn to sing one has to start singing.

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            10 months ago

            I can understand what you mean.

            I suppose on my end the reason that social media exists was as a forum for open communication with strangers that you would never actually meet in real life, generally to discuss interests and hobbies, or to just shoot the shit. I’ve never viewed it as a platform for replacing the methods we already had for communicating with people we did know in real life, such as phone, or just meeting with them face to face.