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Humans are social animals. Trying to remove pecking orders in groups of humans seems impossible to me.

• maaku 13y ago
  Not knowing a solution doesn't mean there isn't one. Rather, it means have failed at being creative enough.
  • Fuzzwah 13y ago
    Valid point. My phrasing was very short and easily misinterpreted . I'd love to be able to express it in some more positive way; this topic is something I've put a lot of thought into. My central concern is that as technology has advanced it has been easier and easier for humans to live in larger and larger groups. As the potential for our embarrassing moments to become viral memes which spread around the world has grown so has the potential for these kind of moments to utterly destroy someone's confidence, if not life. I do hope some kind of solution is found. I just can't see how. We're fighting against progress. Some kid making a fool of themselves in a small tribe of ~100 people is manageable. When the fool's audience suddenly becomes every internet connected person on the planet it is hard to sit everyone down and quietly explain "hey, maybe you should lay off starwars kid".
• wikwocket 13y ago
  On top of that, many online systems are set up in such a way that king-maker behavior emerges. When there's billions of {videos, tweets, pics, statuses, etc} online, and both the media and these networks themselves feature 'viral' content, random uploaded bits can achieve fame (or infamy) out of nowhere. YouTube has a lot of Internet-celebrities that started out with one random video that went viral, and now they have thousands or millions of followers. And look at photo memes - those were just random Flickr/Facebook posts that are now everywhere. To change this effect would perhaps require changing the fundamental way people network online nowadays.