bazang
Level 7
- Jul 3, 2024
- 337
People can socialize using their smartphones. Just make a call. Better yet, meet face-to-face.Social networks shouldn't be abolished. I'm more for heavy regulation. I think no one would have anything against social networks from the past. It's in human nature to socialize, both, physically and online.
What it needs to be done is force social networks to disclose how their algorithms work and make them more private by forbidding them to learn from you. Currently, the algorithms are company secrets, they are easily manipulated to push fake news, propaganda, and made to target you only with the content you like. This is dangerous because it divides us as people (we vs them).
And don't be fooled; companies love this because it benefits them, helps social network being active and rises the engagement; which makes you addicted and makes platform stay relevant.
I'd gladly use Facebook if it was like from early 2010s. In fact, I really miss this era. No bullshit, just you, your friends, bunch of games which you played together and chat. All you really need. And all of that without shady algorithm. This is also why Facebook became popular in the first place, but then... enshittification began.
Social media is global poison. To make it not poison would require such a huge, massive, very expensive effort that would make it not feasible.
Social media (which now includes the "main stream" media, is contributing to the global disintegration of societies. All societies are being destroyed from within by their own people. Because social media is making it possible.
Really, social media itself is not the problem. It is people. It is people that make social media so terrible. People are ALWAYS the problem. ALWAYS.
It is the same argument with weapons. Weapons are just inanimate objects. It is people that pick up the weapon and use it to harm or kill others.
When there is something that people use that causes problems, my perspective is REMOVE THE PERSON\PEOPLE.
Oh well. The world needs 3 or 4 Thanos Moments anyways. It will be the only thing that saves the species. If social media contributes, I suppose one could say that social media did good by enabling a few Thanos Moments.