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I feel like a lot of people think "the internet" is toxic When in reality maybe humans are just bad and the internet just exposed it Before the internet there
by arduinomancer 5y ago
I feel like a lot of people think "the internet" is toxic
When in reality maybe humans are just bad and the internet just exposed it
Before the internet there was just no way to see it
- commandlinefan 5y ago> no way to see it Sure there was. All the pearl-clutchers who are telling us that Facebook has doomed society were saying the same thing about TV a few decades ago. Remember Morton Downey Jr? Jerry Springer? Sally Jesse Raphael? They were saying that about music. Remember 2 Live Crew? People burned Beatles records for fear that this "devil's music" would destroy civilization. They were saying that about comic books. They were saying that about Dungeons and Dragons. I've spent my entire near half-century of life hearing about how everything I enjoy is going to destroy society.
- jjkaczor 5y agoBoth can be true. Facebook can be both a problem - and a boon. It certainly helps people find other people who share the same "pearl/rifle" clutching mentality - and amplifies them into eco-chambers.