Re:I resigned from Twitter
by game_the0ry on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:13PM
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> Twitter and other social media are probably the biggest problem of our time.
No, social media is not the root problem - it showed us who we really are.
> The worst bit is that social media is becoming the primary source of news for most people today. The results have been nothing short of catastrophic.
There is good news - people are figuring out the effects of social media. Your post is one example - you see there are issues, you have "woken up." The "Social Dilemma" on netflix is another example, that deprogrammed a lot of people. Frances Haugen's testimony to congress, another. Slowly and surely, people will build "immunity" to "mind viruses." Humans fought this battle and won [1], but the war will go on as long as humans and media coexist.
No, social media is not the root problem - it showed us who we really are.
> The worst bit is that social media is becoming the primary source of news for most people today. The results have been nothing short of catastrophic.
There is good news - people are figuring out the effects of social media. Your post is one example - you see there are issues, you have "woken up." The "Social Dilemma" on netflix is another example, that deprogrammed a lot of people. Frances Haugen's testimony to congress, another. Slowly and surely, people will build "immunity" to "mind viruses." Humans fought this battle and won [1], but the war will go on as long as humans and media coexist.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism