80s millennial here; I grew up with heavy religious indoctrinate and that’s a lame excuse. I went from extreme conservative to woke leftist in my 20s, because that’s when I started caring about being informed and began reading the news. Anyone who uses social news websites should have a natural inclination towards the left once they start to pay attention to what’s going on in the world. (For me it started with browsing digg, and then reddit.)
If you can’t see how blatantly evil conservatives are after spending many years on the internet then you’re willfully choosing to ignore what you don’t want to see. I know I did for most of my teens. I would “blame the liberal media” and then go in with my day.
That’s not entirely true. Social media now (and for a long while) shows people what they want to see. If you’re right wing then it will show posts that reinforce those beliefs. Social media isn’t picking sides, it’s trying to maximize view time and if that requires distributing misinformation then so be it.
These days, sure, but like I said, I’m a millennial born in the 80s, and formed most of my political beliefs during 2000s internet, before algorithms took over. So older people like me have even less of an excuse to be conservative.
80s millennial here; I grew up with heavy religious indoctrinate and that’s a lame excuse. I went from extreme conservative to woke leftist in my 20s, because that’s when I started caring about being informed and began reading the news. Anyone who uses social news websites should have a natural inclination towards the left once they start to pay attention to what’s going on in the world. (For me it started with browsing digg, and then reddit.)
If you can’t see how blatantly evil conservatives are after spending many years on the internet then you’re willfully choosing to ignore what you don’t want to see. I know I did for most of my teens. I would “blame the liberal media” and then go in with my day.
That’s not entirely true. Social media now (and for a long while) shows people what they want to see. If you’re right wing then it will show posts that reinforce those beliefs. Social media isn’t picking sides, it’s trying to maximize view time and if that requires distributing misinformation then so be it.
These days, sure, but like I said, I’m a millennial born in the 80s, and formed most of my political beliefs during 2000s internet, before algorithms took over. So older people like me have even less of an excuse to be conservative.