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I agree with the part about social media having negative effects on our behaviour. I can recognize some of these effects in my self. I hope we can see studies about this in the future and maybe schools teaching the pros & cons of the internet in general.
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> Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform Who said that? Not me.
Well, you substituted "social media" for "human connections" as if those are one and the same, or you can't have one without the other.
Yet he also goes to CNN, which was shown to be colluding with the Clinton campaign (and runs overwhelmingly slanted coverage. Something like 90% negative on Trump, hugely positive for Obama.)
He's picking his preferred poison. But he's not getting a balanced world-view, if that's what he's after.
There are less drastic options. I'm still on facebook but unsubscribed from all feeds. As a result there's almost nothing but ads on my news feed so I'm not really tempted to go there anymore. I also don't post anything there. Still, I keep my account "just in case" and I do use messenger a lot though. I have the feeling facebook is slowly dying, but I'm probably wrongly generalizing my own experience (is this called…
Its funny. Most people I know (~37 and under) only really use it for events and, at times, messenger. Its sort of a modern phonebook. My sister (early 40s) and her peers are still using it on a regular basis, but the content could easily be on twitter or instagram. The real demographic that is in love with it is my parents' generation, ~67+. They follow a lot of the '%city% then and now' and other nostalgic groups. A…
That's something I really don't see happening.
Alternatively: accept the value of Messenger and access it directly via https://www.messenger.com or the Messenger app. I will never be able to understand these articles as ALL (with some exceptions) my friends are on facebook, and it is the only way I have to keep touch with all of them. This is a huge problem for people like me who travel a lot and have no other ways of getting in touch with someone.
> have no other ways of getting in touch with someone. They don't have telephones or e-mail, or even home addresses? Granted, it might not be as convenient, but people, including friends, do not cease to exist outside of facebook, or are facebook-friends friends of convenience only?
I don't know everyone else's use cases for Facebook, but in my case it's just a way to be able to keep in contact with people I'd otherwise be losing contact with.
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Well, you substituted "social media" for "human connections" as if those are one and the same, or you can't have one without the other.
Or "social media" can cover "human connections" adequately as a better description without being one and the same or inextricably tied.
It's not that humans have developed some bizarro attachment to human connections in general.
If anything, human connections have suffered a lot in our age (see all the relevant studies about the rise of loneliness and its impact).
What we do have developed is a bizarro attachment to social media -- spending 1-3 hours per day checking them.
"A facebook account was closed." Headline suggested to me someone resigning from the company. The latter is more interesting. Many people have closed their facebook accounts, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get whatever contact details you don't have from connections then do it. Others never opened one. Life is fine without facebook, if you feel you want to close your account, do it. Foo…
Indeed. Quite disappointed with the article.
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Haha, well not too sure. For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. On the other hand, we’ve been attached to human connections since the begging of civilization. Not sold that would end in 10 years time.
> For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. It is, it really is. > You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. Well, yeah, that's a truism.
Maybe we have extremely different feeds, but I mostly just see junk updates like: "walking the dogs", "just had breakfast", "just got home from work", "yay friday", "look we are at bar/party/gathering", "argh! mondays suck"
Then there are some random quiz/ad/lottery things. And random pictures of people's kids/pets.
I get much more human interaction out of IRC and Discord, places where you can actually talk and not just like and comment.
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> For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. It is, it really is. > You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. Well, yeah, that's a truism.
>It is, it really is. Maybe we have extremely different feeds, but I mostly just see junk updates like: "walking the dogs", "just had breakfast", "just got home from work", "yay friday", "look we are at bar/party/gathering", "argh! mondays suck" Then there are some random quiz/ad/lottery things. And random pictures of people's kids/pets. I get much more human interaction out of IRC and Discord, places where you can a…
See, if you're calling things like those "junk updates", I'd venture the problem is on your end.
> Then there are some random quiz/ad/lottery things.
Those I will agree do not count as human connections.
> places where you can actually talk and not just like and comment.
How is commenting not "talking"? Unless you're restricting "talk" to solely mean "synchronous discussion" which is madness.