• Social media created an immediate soap box for everyone, and a way for unhealthy ideas to propagate quicker and more virally. It encourages vanity, inhibition, and unrealistic expectations. Then there’s the whole corporate element, where the mainstream of these platforms are truly just systems of data collection and manipulation.
  • Dead internet theory coming in nicely
  • The early advent of the internet had high hopes it would be used for the sharing of information. It indeed is, but the most widely used search engines are weighted to point you towards curated and questionable sources of information. This is purposeful, and often capitalistically motivated versus educational.
  • There’s more, but I’m tired and didn’t expect to type all this out, so I’ll leave it for the comments.
  • somethingsnappyEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Juuuuust wait for measles and get back to us. Or. Remember covid. You couldn’t be more wrong. You could also say “More” instead of now. Still wholly incorrect.

    • BassTurdEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      Measles and Covid were spread by the Internet? I remember hearing a bunch of misinformation spread in TV broadcasts. I remember RFK changing the vaccination recommendations. I remember reading far more factual information online than false on both of those topics. The nature of pandemics is they kill people. Shitty people can’t be bothered to listen to reason, even though they were told and showed the facts. The Internet is just one medium that information is disseminated, but the bigger factors are the likes of FOX news and other 24/7 news stations.

      • somethingsnappyEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        So you agree. Vaccines saved people, not the internet, but the web leads people into echo chambers and rabbit holes, doing the exact opposite. Thanks.

        • BassTurdEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s one medium that can lead people to misinformation, but the pros far outweigh the cons. Education, sharing of vital information in real time, communication, and connections before unavailable with friends and relatives exist because of the Internet. It’s rapidly being policies down a dark rabbit hole of shit policies. Blaming bad journalism and bad actors on the Internet is like blaming the roads when someone is killed by a drunk driver.

            • BassTurdEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              They do exist but they’re not as easily accessible. I remember reading through the dated information of encyclopedias doing projects in school. Information on the Internet is readily available and updated in a timely manner as new information is gathered.

              There are also plenty of books and other education resources that are full of bad information. There are many things taught in schools that aren’t true.

              The source of information is the problem, not the medium it lives on.