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The psychological ramifications of the current Internet
Colton Richardson
Austin Lee
I don't know much about any of this. I never got connected to social media in the first place, saw how terrible it was as a medium for communication and how sites like reddit could be easily gamed by algorithms to control the flow of information. What I'm wondering is where forums went, there used to be tons of shitty phpbb boards out there and now there's nothing with very much presence beyond some gaming websites.
I lived under a rock from 2007 to about 2016 and basically stopped caring about life. I'm not too surprised that universities went towards extreme thought policing, should be obvious to anyone who isn't in the education bubble and all the indoctrination that goes with it.
I don't think it's the algorithms that are the problem, but that successive generations of this education system have produced a population of mindless followers and elevated a group of craven thugs to social heights that wouldn't be otherwise possible. The schools we learn in prioritize the worst traits in people imaginable, actually stunt the ability to learn (this is demonstrable just by looking at the ass-backwards way any subject is taught to grade school children; any child that did not have access to learning materials to do it the right way would never be able to learn how to read, write and do basic arithmetic with the methods schools use to teach children today, and this is consciously pursued so that entrenched social distinctions are intensified and humanity is sorted, permanently, into grades which would be in due time granted specific legal rights or penalties based on their rank.
Juan Bell
Forums got chipped away by social media and imageboards, now those are getting chipped away by like, Dis/cord for some reason.
Aiden Young
First of all, fuck you OP.
I was expecting that QR code to do some cool shit and it did absolutely nothing.
Secondly, I have been off facebook for about a month now. Got a computer again and started using tools like tor, i2p, freenet, ect ect ect and, honestly, it feels a lot better.
I even made a minds; I get what you are saying, I feel it. the insanity of everyday life.
I am thinking about just getting rid of my phone all together and just getting a house phone, honestly. I still have my twitter, though. But it's connected to my pseudo-anonymous id. I maily use it for news in the morning.
I can decide if I want to drop off the clear net completely or live a type of split life where I interact with all my normie friends on my cell phone; Facebook, google, etc etc. (Knowing there is no way to truly anonymize a cell phone.)
Or drop off totally and only use the internet on my computer: Tor, Riseup.net VPN, i2p, ect ect ect.
On my PC I barley use any clearnet traffic at all, tbh.
I had to turn on http.referheaders for firefox though to use Zig Forums.
Not super happy about that, but, I guess it's only used to follow you with in the site itself. Also, I have Riseup and all that; linuxmint, etc etc.
Good luck out there OP. Live long and prosper~
Connor Garcia
Holy fuck, lmao. These faggots really think using a MAC is edgy.
Angel Gray
It is edgy can't you see?
Thanks to Apple, 1984 wasn't like Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Big brother BTFO
Adam Baker
youtube.com
I forgot about that shit
Jordan Adams
At least you can still distinguish between them. Most people call everything social media now. Literally everything on the internet that allows communication.
I think this revisionism comes from every site being forced to adopt "social" features or die, as the rate of ad profits sharply declined.
If you watched this process unfold, it's clear that there was a time before we even had a term for "social media", however everything is converging on the most profitable form, hence they all end up looking the same.
Mobiles apps even more so because there's only so many ways to fit information on a tiny screen.
Jonathan Martinez
How many of you are sourcing your information about world events from Facebook or simple google searches? I thought it was pretty well known that you will only get liberal drivel from that shit (which can be insightful for different reasons)? If you are creeped out by someone collecting your data, I get the concern. But if you are worried about being brain washed, I worry about your ability to critically examine information, especially from a “left” or ML perspective. I’ve never really done the social media thing, and I don’t mindlessly click on recommended shit unless it’s music, so I can’t really empathize. Certainly the systemic implications are a bigger issue.
Anthony Edwards
To everyone ITT saying that they'll continue to use Google because they're already too deep in it, check this out: spreadprivacy.com
Basically, regardless of what Google has or doesn't have on you, they're still directing you to click the results they want you to click. That alone was reason enough to make me switch.