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I recall during the last election cycle I would always see divisive posts from friends on facebook. Facebook has me marked as liberal. I would always see rath

by snarfy 3y ago

I recall during the last election cycle I would always see divisive posts from friends on facebook. Facebook has me marked as liberal. I would always see rather inflammatory posts from conservative friends. What bothered me was that those same friends would post dozens of times a day about non political things, posts that would get a lot of comments and likes. I never saw those posts unless I went directly to their page. Facebook only put their posts on my feed which would be inflammatory.

mrtksn 3y ago
I don't mind political content even from fringe ideologies. I'm actually curious why people think what they think, why people do what they do. I know the arguments of "my side" and I want to know the "other side". That's why I still use Twitter but my problem with the traditional social media is that it constantly induces anger in me. Lately, I also begin seeing too much bullying, the red pill alpha male stuff that constantly argues someone is bad/immoral/weak if doing this unimportant or mundane thing and we are all doomed and this one weird trick can fix it(usually crypto, some BS attitude towards someone etc). It feels like high school. Just unbearable. I made myself a few list of people from different view so I can be aware of their agenda and argumentation but can't stand the "for you" tab. If Twitter was a real life those people in the "for you" tab wouldn't have survived a day among the society, IRL you can't just go around and spell BS constantly. There's a serious hustler overload in the traditional social media, a functioning society doesn't have space for that many flamboyant people. Its exhausting. One Dan Bilzerian may be an entertainment, add a Kardashian too maybe but a society of %0.1 Kardashians is too much. That's not a society. Maybe we don't have a real social media anymore due to the engagement wars.

by snarfy 3y ago

mrtksn 3y ago

I don't mind political content even from fringe ideologies. I'm actually curious why people think what they think, why people do what they do. I know the arguments of "my side" and I want to know the "other side". That's why I still use Twitter but my problem with the traditional social media is that it constantly induces anger in me. Lately, I also begin seeing too much bullying, the red pill alpha male stuff that constantly argues someone is bad/immoral/weak if doing this unimportant or mundane thing and we are all doomed and this one weird trick can fix it(usually crypto, some BS attitude towards someone etc). It feels like high school. Just unbearable. I made myself a few list of people from different view so I can be aware of their agenda and argumentation but can't stand the "for you" tab. If Twitter was a real life those people in the "for you" tab wouldn't have survived a day among the society, IRL you can't just go around and spell BS constantly. There's a serious hustler overload in the traditional social media, a functioning society doesn't have space for that many flamboyant people. Its exhausting. One Dan Bilzerian may be an entertainment, add a Kardashian too maybe but a society of %0.1 Kardashians is too much. That's not a society. Maybe we don't have a real social media anymore due to the engagement wars.