I honestly struggle to see the value-add of any social media site like Facebook. It seems like their central function is to atomize and narcissize, I don't see a way this sort of infrastructure can't be fundamentally negative.
I get it I didn't think you were defending Facebook. My point is the social aspect of these sites is part of what's bad about it.
For the very small subsection of people who are housebound and simply cannot socialize otherwise, yeah this kind of medium is an unqualified good. But for basically everyone else they get captured having these social interactions mediated through a screen, serves to remove time from life actually socializing with real people. It's that substitution that performs the atomization and narcissism.
I'm pretty convinced anything beyond a basic chat function like ICQ (which is now basically Signal/WhatsApp) is fundamentally negative, and the idea that aspects of it don't feel negative is part of what's negative about it.
I honestly struggle to see the value-add of any social media site like Facebook. It seems like their central function is to atomize and narcissize, I don't see a way this sort of infrastructure can't be fundamentally negative.
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I get it I didn't think you were defending Facebook. My point is the social aspect of these sites is part of what's bad about it.
For the very small subsection of people who are housebound and simply cannot socialize otherwise, yeah this kind of medium is an unqualified good. But for basically everyone else they get captured having these social interactions mediated through a screen, serves to remove time from life actually socializing with real people. It's that substitution that performs the atomization and narcissism.
I'm pretty convinced anything beyond a basic chat function like ICQ (which is now basically Signal/WhatsApp) is fundamentally negative, and the idea that aspects of it don't feel negative is part of what's negative about it.
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