Re:Facebook Makes Us Know Too Much About Each Other
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:51AM
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I'd say it's worse than that: people aren't lecturing to their interlocutor. They're lecturing or signalling to the wider audience.
This, IMO, has been the bane of online forums of all kind. People talk like they're pundits on a discussion panel - they make points for the people watching, not for each other.
These people communicate not like they are having a discussion with someone else. They don't just post a link and ask, "can you believe what happened here?"
Instead they post the link and tell you what you should think about it. It isn't a conversation. It isn't even just half the conversation. They are lecturing. It's a behavior that wouldn't happen in person, and if it didn't that person would just be avoided.
When I identified this style of post and blocked these people, the only thing really left that annoys is the clickbait ads.
In short, treat the people on the other side of your messages like friends you are speaking to, not as an audience you are educating on the proper way of doing thinking.