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Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 5 days ago by venotic@kbin.melroy.org to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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I'm seeing one too many people blaming social media for this and social media for that because it's just simply - social media. I think about this because I believe that you shouldn't blame the tool because it is a tool, but blame the person who uses the tool for their intent.

Which means I'm on the side of the camp that actually knows lots of people abuse social media and has it demonized. It's absolutely silly to just blame a concept or an idea for just being as is. So everyone else is going around blaming and blaming social media for their problems. Not too much the individuals that have contaminated it with their empty-brained existences.

And we all know that some of the more popular social media platforms are controlled by devoid-of-reality sychophants in Zuck, Spez, Musk that sways and stirs the volume of people on their platform with their equally as devoid ideas in how to manage.

Social Media, whether you like it or not, has a use. It's a useful tool to engage with eachother as close as possible. Might be a bit saturated with many platforms to choose from.

But I just think social media being blamed for just being as is, is such a backwards way of thinking.

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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Social media simply allows people to post things publicly. The fact that one feels more anonymous when doing so is a side effect of the human condition, not the fault of the platforms. What this has led to is a rise in the visibility of extremist thinking, allowing those that would normally hide those views to see that others share them. As such people will congregate to places online where they feel welcome for the views they hold. Again, this is just human nature.

Now, could social media platforms do more to curb extremist viewpoints? Sure, but you run into privacy issues and... well, we're already dealing with that, so if they're going to track everything people say anyway they might as well try to make their platforms less vitriolic. But they don't, because they'd lose users, and users are the only metric by which their platforms make any kind of income.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (22 children)

Yes. Social media is literally just a fairly accurate reflection of us as a species and our civilization. If people wanted, things would be very different. People simply do not want equality or progress, they want to hate thy neighbour.

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[–] Kelsier@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Yes, social media is the problem. But there are two social media spheres. The one where we are, with Lemmy and Mastodon, is not the problem. The problem is the social media that exists in the capitalist world. What happened with the internet is that we invented a lot of services that should be a human right but they are controlled by corporations. Everyone should have access to a zero knowledge email, everyone should have access to a social media platform that is not controlled by anyone (it's a public space).

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[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, I don't think it's exaggerated.

Have you ever unplugged? If not, you simply have no possible frame of reference; you really want to find your answer, that's how.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago

I've unplugged and absolutely nothing changed. People are absolutely full of bloodlust with or without social media and have always been. I don't even use any corpo social media whatsoever still, I have no need or time for it.

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