:a-guy: I have held for years that social media is bad for your health but goddamn I hate being as right as I was. I need a Facebook burning emoji ASAP.
:a-guy: I have held for years that social media is bad for your health but goddamn I hate being as right as I was. I need a Facebook burning emoji ASAP.
:liz-society: talking about seeing herself as an online commodity while I thought "huh, I can do multiple emojis of this person who is disgusted by her online presence". You couldn't pay me enough to be famous unless it was over like $100k in which case sure. Everything from Benjamin to Debord to Baudrillard has made me feel so fundamentally uneasy with commodification that it's a socioeconomic/sociocultural cancer to me. But specifically the kind of herpes cancer Tasmanian devils get where a single nexus point can spread it like wildfire throughout a community. Social media turning everyone into a little celebrity chasing the attention of big ones made every Tasmanian devil a nexus point.
Myspace Tom was a judas goat. We followed him because he looked friendly and innocent. To where.
I feel the same way about being personally commodified by some social media algorithm, like hell even making a dating profile puts me extremely on edge.
Okcupid is the only one I can somewhat tolerate because I'm looking at a person's ideas, but they're all a step above a slave market and as predatory as they are parasitic. At least in the good old days we had non-capitalist solutions to dating like shouting "yo you got legs" at any woman walking past a construction site.