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Social Media

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Grays_1890

David Ginola
I have been really thinking about Social Media in the last few days and how ingrained it is in peoples lives, myself included and how it impacts mood, especially reflective because of DubaiSpur post on the subject and the more I think about it, the more it really amazes me as a space where I find people lose a massive sense of reality and I can't fathom it out.

The whole IbizaBoss fella thing came up and its just such an example of how the worlds lost sense of itself. How a guy can become famous now for merely having a really crap haircut is astonishing. He will make a fair bit of dosh from short lived fame from it, when you think about it rationally.......you ask yourself why

Then I saw a debate on twitter which fascinated me (as I love the psychology side of life), the debate was about Thomas Skinner where one guy was saying "I think he is an inspiration" where another said "I think he is grifting, he has a record for handling stolen good and he is also a serial company closer", so that got me thinking are we sold by online personas like Skinner and Big John basically because they say stuff like "bosh" rather than being rational and saying maybe I am trusting an online persona far more than I should be............or is that cynical??

Anyway nothing profound, just a brain dump
 
It’s pop culture populism.

There really is nothing to most of it.

I binned off all social media other than this place a few years back. I was worried about being less informed, but the right podcasts bridged that gap, now I’m blissfully ignorant of the pile ons and reactive flimflam (mostly).
 
I sat in my parents house a few years ago and all my nieces (late 20s to early 40s) were scrolling on their phones, I asked them if any of them could tell what they had seen three "flicks" ago.
None of them could, not one.
How can you spend so much time on something and pay so little attention?
 
Can you remember life before computers?

Can you remember life before the internet?

Can you remember life before mobile phones?

Can you remember life before smart phones?

Can you remember life before social media?

Can you remember life before AI?

What's the next 2 or 3 questions in the series?
 
Muttley said:
Can you remember life before computers?

Can you remember life before the internet?

Can you remember life before mobile phones?

Can you remember life before smart phones?

Can you remember life before social media?

Can you remember life before AI?

What's the next 2 or 3 questions in the series?
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Can you remember life before societal collapse?

Anybody got any food?
 
Muttley said:
Can you remember life before computers?

Can you remember life before the internet?

Can you remember life before mobile phones?

Can you remember life before smart phones?

Can you remember life before social media?

Can you remember life before AI?

What's the next 2 or 3 questions in the series?
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Can you remember life before the robots took over
 
Muttley said:
Can you remember life before computers?

Can you remember life before the internet?

Can you remember life before mobile phones?

Can you remember life before smart phones?

Can you remember life before social media?

Can you remember life before AI?

What's the next 2 or 3 questions in the series?
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Why aren't you dead, you are a drain on society and a cause of all the ills in the world?
 
Baleforce said:
Not at all, by that I mean there is no substance or truth to it.

Just as with politics and football fandom, people get sucked in by a sound bite, ignoring the complexity of the issues and mistaking not being sated for not being heard.
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I agree with that part, and I'm not sure if it was just that part you were responding to?

I'm referencing the deeper compounding behavioural and psychological effects beyond the everyday content. (SM apps don't all hit the same)

Then there is the effect across different age groups.
 
I clearly remember the first time I physically held a brand new iPhone, three days after the first one launched. I'd done a lot of research into it, was fairly interested, but once I held it, well, something snapped and I immediately went and got one. I thought it would be a fun tool, but I always saw it as a tool to be used judiciously. I did not expect the sheer levels and depths of its ubiquity to become what they have.
I think the iPhone has been the single largest gateway into some very serious rewiring of humanity, both in a metaphoric and literal sense.
I genuinely feel we have short-circuited an area of our brains wired for longer thought processes into short-attention only actions. The sheer distance these objects put physically between us is madness (in terms of less in-person interactions).

The re-wiring of the world, the way life is now presented through these mediums and is designed to provoke big instant emotional responses devoid of rational thought (which, BTW, is OK IMO when Richy's scoring goals like THAT!) and the way in which genuine news has been. replaced by opinions dressed as news, are scary.
 
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