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My opinion of the problem is one specific type of communication. The guilty parties include both the left and right politically, as well as anyone else with an
by LanceH 5y ago
My opinion of the problem is one specific type of communication. The guilty parties include both the left and right politically, as well as anyone else with an axe to grind about something.
These people communicate not like they are having a discussion with someone else. They don't just post a link and ask, "can you believe what happened here?"
Instead they post the link and tell you what you should think about it. It isn't a conversation. It isn't even just half the conversation. They are lecturing. It's a behavior that wouldn't happen in person, and if it didn't that person would just be avoided.
When I identified this style of post and blocked these people, the only thing really left that annoys is the clickbait ads.
In short, treat the people on the other side of your messages like friends you are speaking to, not as an audience you are educating on the proper way of doing thinking.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoI'd say it's worse than that: people aren't lecturing to their interlocutor. They're lecturing or signalling to the wider audience. This, IMO, has been the bane of online forums of all kind. People talk like they're pundits on a discussion panel - they make points for the people watching, not for each other.
- andrew_ 5y agosocial media is no longer sharing among peers. it's gaming for attention and numbers.