• Zorque@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Social media is a tool that could just as easily be used for the betterment of humankind.

      Sadly, that doesn’t make a few people lots and lots of money, so it doesn’t happen.

    • Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      And its here to stay. The way kids are stuck on YouTube is like how old people are stuck on fox news.

      I’ve thought about this a lot. There’s no end. If its not Facebook, YouTube, cable, etc. It will be something else. If only our daily lives where interesting in and of themselves. Escapism will always detach us from each other and we will flail on the wind forever.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Social media isn’t the problem Friendster used to exist and it was fine

      The problem is putting the internet on a smartphone, because that meant that any idiot could get online now

      And now the internet is 99.99% idiots

      • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Are you suggesting that the nearly instantaneous spread of mis/disinformation, the erosion of young peoples’ self esteem, or the damage to our attention spans is limited to people living in the United States?

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          no,I’m saying muricans. are mostly stupid and therefore MOSTLY susceptible