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People are frustrated because their online experience is more frustrating than before. App updates, social media, and even entertainment options are all tighten
by winternett 5y ago
People are frustrated because their online experience is more frustrating than before. App updates, social media, and even entertainment options are all tightening their grip on revenue streams and profit, which makes online experiences far more frustrating without most people knowing that it's occurring.
Also, opportunity is still being twisted by corporations to prevent employee advancement and growth as "pushback" to economic protests going on right now.
There is also fatigue from our current world-wide pandemic to where people aren't communicating and social as they were prior.
All of these things are manifesting in our daily experiences, and when combined with intentionally limited tools where people can communicate and express themselves and in normally encountering negative discourse online, many people are becoming even more and more aggravated, triggered, and aggressive towards each other as a result online and in real life.
Our user experiences are a major issue now that we rely so much on software and now that they have almost all been corrupted by monetization, inundated by advertisements, and limited because they've scaled too far to truly be useful to us as individuals.
It may sound like doom and gloom, but that worry goes away if you turn the tech off and go outside and talk to real people without all of the feckless apps and overpriced hardware involved.
We need to stop letting corporations and individuals over-run the Internet for financial gain and bring tech back down to earth so that everyone can thrive, not just the wealthy and popular few.