For social media, I want to believe the newer generation is smart enough to want a better platform and I'm optimistic that someone smart enough is going to create a curation algorithm that balances things out. At least I want to take a crack at it at some point.
What's the move for you? US isn't looking too hot I bet. Curious on how people outside the US are adjusting.
Socialising just doesn't work large-scale on screens. It's like a partial parasocial relationship.
I hold quite negative views of social media personally. I don't see how it could be built in a way that could suitably replace in-person socialisation. Perhaps the best idea would be a meet-up arranging app, but then that could be handled in a simple chat application really.
Is there data backing this? Because i feel like there’s also a large young segment (esp young men) who support this current administration and what they stand for
Wouldn't that have been nice? This can only have appeared to be true for those people who are so far on the conservative side of things that they think Democrats are leftists.
I do believe that this is a temporary phase, and things would return to a bit of normalcy in a few years. It's my hypothesis that political pendulum swings between two extremes. 2016-21 was a period of extreme leftist opinions and it was problematic too in many ways. The other extreme is a hundred times worse and most people have lost taste for that, too. Secondly, the support for these movements mostly stems from an aging demographic, a lot of which are just passing their last few years.
But I would say social media needs to be clamped down/regulated, free speech be damned. It has caused enough evil already. Can't let a few billionaires decide the direction of world politics.