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I'm thinking misinformation on social media is just something we're going to have to learn and live with. Its like advertising, my grandparents believed when so
by x87678r 6y ago
I'm thinking misinformation on social media is just something we're going to have to learn and live with. Its like advertising, my grandparents believed when some infomercial says this product will make your life better where younger generations know its junk. Pretty soon people will be equally skeptical of random things on social media soon.
- bennyelv 6y agoI see little evidence of that from my own anecdotal experience. Are there any sources that support this progression?
- wolco 6y agoThe African Prince scam where they email you that they need help and will pay you vast sums of money if you do. It has been around awhile and the number of people falling for this has dropped. People catch-on.. not everyone but enough to make an election hack not workable. People struggle with new ideas but adapt . COVID scams have gone up and then down.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoI think that would be more true if they viewed it [as/with the same distance as] a publication. FB (and maybe Twitter, too) seems to hold this weird place where it's not quite a conversation and its not quite broadcasting, but its a bit of both and treated with an overlap of the traits applied to each. So while people grew to view advertising, broadcast and print productions with skepticism, they seem to give more benefit-of-the-doubt to posts on FB as if it were a family member or friend reaching out, but with the same deference they might give to a respected authority writing or speaking on a subject of expertise in a publication or broadcast. It's really strange to see people who I've known my entire life to be intelligent people take shared items on Facebook, YouTube (et al) at face value.