I already watched it, now what?
Meh. I use fb how I want to use it, mostly to keep in touch with certain people. I did once get caught up in some stupid political arguments and actually got my feelings really hurt. It also open my eyes to the depth of certain attitudes in my own family. And when I was able to separate myself from all of those feelings (have I mentioned I hate feelings) I learned from my mistakes and moved on. But I didn’t leave fb altogether bc there are people I care about who gather in a group there. Also I love the baby pictures, especially during the last 2 years when no one takes their babies into public places.
right now i’m seeing a LOT of trashing of harry and meghan for that time magazine 100 most influential people cover. yes, i comment on it, and yes that’s why i get more of it. makes me hate the universe though that this is what’s news and it pisses me off that people hate meghan so much. seems that meghan fell in love with harry, didn’t know what she was getting into with that toxic royal family idea, harry doesn’t know much better because that was his life, but he wasn’t all that happy either, so they left for the US, and good for them. but others loathe her and make her into this villain that she really isn’t. i think it’s the brittish tabloids that made this unfair evil caricature of her, and pisses me off that all these people buy into it.
i feel manipulated you guys.
For some reason I’m not allowed to edit that post more.
ANYWAY, it’s not specifically the hate towards Meghan that pisses me off. It’s humanity in general in that they can get so nasty towards one person like that when seems she did nothing to deserve it. Makes me hate humanity.
and then there is JP Sears who is a supposed “comedian” who is anti-vax, anti-mask, covid denier. according to some of the people who post on his page, they claim he used to be funny, but became scary once covid became a thing. his followers are scary. it’s people like him being given a voice on facebook that is the reason why we are in this covid mess right now.
Can I like this post more than once?
Everyone should set time limits on social media, including GoA. And not look at screens before going to sleep.
HEY IT’S MY CHOICE!!! DON’T TAKE AWAY MUH FREEDUMS!!
facebook and social media in general really does bring out the worst in humanity though.
It’s by design. If you spend time on stuff that makes you hate people then they’ll eagerly spoon feed you more hate. I don’t really see any contentious stuff on facebook. It’s all baby pictures and crazy DIY projects.
did you read my entire post? I specifically said that yes, I know that my commenting on that stuff brings about more of that stuff and expanded on that. That doesn’t take away from the problems of society that this highlights.
I mean you can tell FB you don’t want to see certain articles. I’ve never seen much on Harry and Meghan, even after purposely reading an article.It’s not that hard to tailor your content.
why do people keep saying this to me? that’s not my point.
not seeing it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, and the fact that these comments exist says a lot for why society is crumbling.
You only think society is crumbling because FB is spoon feeding you things to emphasize stories that make it seem like society is crumbling. Society sure doesn’t seem like it’s crumbling from my vantage point.
Uh we had an insurrection at the capitol likely due to social media and there are a large portion of people refusing the covid vaccine and spreading misinformation about the seriousness of covid. These are two prime examples of how social media is severely harming society.
Trump was banned from social media for his part in instigating the insurrection, but countless others are still on it spreading misinformation. Social media is dangerous.
I don’t contend that FB isn’t harmful to society, just that it’s designed to create feedback loops. There are at least as many people spreading misinformation that COVID is far deadlier than it is, by the way. I have a newborn and the number of people who think COVID is a really serious risk while the flu is same-old risk for a newborn is too damn high.
Okay? You have not really counteracted my opinion that society is crumbling due to social media other than to say it isn’t
I think the onus is on you to prove society is crumbling, not for me to prove it isn’t crumbling when the lights still work.
okay, we aren’t all dead yet, but several issues were caused or made worse by social media. if you want to nit pick and say the lights are still on, that doesn’t really disprove my point.
We aren’t quite Myanmar yet.