• Ulrich
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    3919 hours ago

    Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.

    Bruh, technology is causing the void. People are increasingly using technology to replace human interaction, rather than to cultivate it.

    • @[email protected]
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      1918 hours ago

      Social media was a mistake.

      And yes, I’m aware of the irony as I use social media to say so. I do not apologize.

      • @dbkblk
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        7 hours ago

        I’m not so sure. Facebook was a great tool to create local communities at first. Then it became greedy and changed the algorithm for ads and being attention driven. If you remove facebook (which I don’t use since months), it’s harder to find what’s new around you, and get out to cool events. Especially on the countryside.

        • @[email protected]
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          154 minutes ago

          That’s precisely why it was a mistake. People did those things before Facebook, but now? So many people have no clue how to exist without it, and all the while, it’s weaponized against people’s ignorance by bad actors who are greedy for power and money.

          Hell, we’ve had to create decentralized tools just to get some of our agency back. And yet, even knowing that their data is fodder for those same bad actors, people still flock to those previous systems like Facebook, TikTok, Xitter, and Instagram.

          Social media isn’t a mistake because social media is inherently bad. It’s a mistake, because humans in general are too stupid to protect themselves.

      • ZeroOne
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        05 hours ago

        You can choose to leave