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But why tho? How is it different then George Clooney doing some in-movie or news commercial on some new stupid perfume in the 2000s

smnplk 9y ago
Because it's destroying culture. People see value in places where there is no value. Everything is faked to the end with no imagination. If you are not immune, you better consume !
- gizmo385 9y ago
  Who are you to decide that there is no value in it? People are clicking, reading, and engaging. People obviously enjoy doing it. Who are you to tell them that what they're doing is wrong?
  - adventured 9y ago
    It's blatantly a form of snob-elitism that hides behind claims that it's about protecting culture (whose culture?). The same people that say Instagram is destroying culture or makes them ill, look down upon the daily living habits of 'average' people: TV viewing habits, tabloid-style reading (which today is BoredPanda & 22words type sites), Kardashian-ism, celebrity fascination, all the way on to food preferences and beliefs. That snobbery is as old as human history no doubt.
    - romanovcode 9y ago
      Everyone likes to feel special
  - mars4rp 9y ago
    People are use and enjoy hard drug as well, I'm all against drug war, but it does effects their families and society, and if the use of drug was as wide spread as social media. We would have had a very different society. I agree with you that who are we to tell they're wrong though.
Keeeeeeeks 9y ago
I'd say it's like celebrities advertising products all the time, and then being exposed to updates through social media under the implied context that it's relatively candid time. Of course, social media can and usually is doctored, but influencer culture definitely takes celebrity product endorsement and plays it out to its logical conclusion. The dust hasn't quite settled, but everyone using social media to stunt on others does affect the mental health of people who consistently use these platforms. I'd say that it negatively impacts culture because it promotes building these facades and advertising said facades.

smnplk 9y ago

Because it's destroying culture. People see value in places where there is no value. Everything is faked to the end with no imagination. If you are not immune, you better consume !

gizmo385 9y ago
Who are you to decide that there is no value in it? People are clicking, reading, and engaging. People obviously enjoy doing it. Who are you to tell them that what they're doing is wrong?
- adventured 9y ago
  It's blatantly a form of snob-elitism that hides behind claims that it's about protecting culture (whose culture?). The same people that say Instagram is destroying culture or makes them ill, look down upon the daily living habits of 'average' people: TV viewing habits, tabloid-style reading (which today is BoredPanda & 22words type sites), Kardashian-ism, celebrity fascination, all the way on to food preferences and beliefs. That snobbery is as old as human history no doubt.
  - romanovcode 9y ago
    Everyone likes to feel special
- mars4rp 9y ago
  People are use and enjoy hard drug as well, I'm all against drug war, but it does effects their families and society, and if the use of drug was as wide spread as social media. We would have had a very different society. I agree with you that who are we to tell they're wrong though.

Keeeeeeeks 9y ago

I'd say it's like celebrities advertising products all the time, and then being exposed to updates through social media under the implied context that it's relatively candid time. Of course, social media can and usually is doctored, but influencer culture definitely takes celebrity product endorsement and plays it out to its logical conclusion. The dust hasn't quite settled, but everyone using social media to stunt on others does affect the mental health of people who consistently use these platforms. I'd say that it negatively impacts culture because it promotes building these facades and advertising said facades.