: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.
I somehow stumbled into the right idea when I, as a paranoid very online pre-teen, decided to NEVER make a social media account. Best decision of my life.
You needed to be in college to sign up for Facebook when I was that age and I didn't go to college so I just never got into it. Imgur led me to reddit around 2012 and it's been all downhill from there. Even this place I'll refresh my page to see my upvotes even though they mean absolutely nothing. I like having a posting void. some shit isn't worth bothering people I know irl. I guess I've read some books I wouldn't have otherwise
E: and I'd love to know the hosts dally screen time I'd bet it's more than they think
Last time I checked mine it was way more than I think so maybe its projecting but also screentime doubled last year so who fucking knows
Mine varies a ton depending how busy I am at work. I'm at 4ish hours a day this week
Dunno actually I think my girlfriend was on 4chan/reddit and showed me lolcats
Good take.
Hexbear has a similar effect imo but it’s nice to have a release valve for the righteous indignation
By the way this is social media too. It might not be capitalist, but it is social media nonetheless. We have an algorithm, and that determines site culture.
For the purposes of USCIS, this is not social media, it is a forum for hexagonal bears, and as such I do not need to disclose my account for my citizenship application as it is not a social media account :scared:
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It's true that an algorithm exists, but this site's algorithm is open source and not controlled by a for-profit company, so it is different.
The virgin 3 minute RATM song vs. the chad 55 minute Dopesmoker by Sleep
There's yet to be a tin hat I do t look great in or sallt that can't be improved by my skull denting it.
I remember deleting Fac**ook in 09 because of one brief moment of clarity. Very glad I just have Instagram now lol.
And this too, obviously.
Haven't listened yet, but one thing that worries me to no end about social media is what agencies like the :cia: are experimenting doing with it. Like imagining them trying to do MKUltra 2.0 but with social media gives me nightmares to think about.
Something they discuss in the episode is that social media is effectively doing MKUltra 2 anyways, regardless of whether or not the feds are in control. It is a point I agree with, a generation of people locked into their screens, depressed, falling to mass psychosis, generating profit for Zuck and whoever off of an image of themselves that doesn't actually exist that is also being compared to people with full staffs and doing it full time. Its enough to drive people insane
Haha this fucked me up :agony-shivering:
Better yet I met some people with DID a couple weeks ago and that fucked me up too :agony-mescaline:
: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.
