The Blindness of Social Wealth
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The Blindness of Social Wealth
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#2"It’s that Facebook and other social media companies are feeding this epidemic of loneliness and social isolation."
This is less about Facebook and more about people on the internet.
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#3"It’s that Facebook and other social media companies are feeding this epidemic of loneliness and social isolation." This is less about Facebook and more about people on the internet.
Yeah, I was socially isolating myself online WAY before facebook!
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#4"I was really struck by this last week, when Mark Zuckerberg came through Washington. Most of the questions he faced at the congressional hearings and most of the analysis in the press were about Facebook’s failure to protect privacy. That’s the sort of thing that may be uppermost on your mind if you are socially wealthy, if, like most successful politicians and analysts, you live within a thick web of connection and feel as if your social schedule is too full."
Or you know, because they were there to discuss privacy and not try to regulate away loneliness, which obviously isn't the role of the government anyway.
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#5David Brooks is the worst.
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#6"It’s that Facebook and other social media companies are feeding this epidemic of loneliness and social isolation." This is less about Facebook and more about people on the internet.
Yeah, I was socially isolating myself online WAY before facebook!
I see now: /r9k/ posters were internet hipsters, creating reality-distorting bubbles of isolation and despair around themselves before it was cool.
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#7There is a growing culture of reaction videos on YT. People watch other people watching and reacting to stuff. That never sat well with me. And I always wondered - are people so alone or insecure that they need to watch other people's "reaction" to feel better? Given the rise of reaction channels on YT, I guess the answer is resounding - Yes.
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#8"In America today you would say that the clans have polarized, the villages have been decimated and the tribes have become weaponized."
This is an interesting statement, but doesn't really have any facts backing it.
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#9This article makes some decent points but it's a shame that it had to be weakly and opprobriously framed as a kind of 'wealth' struggle. As the article itself says, "the tribes have become weaponized", I guess.
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#10"I was really struck by this last week, when Mark Zuckerberg came through Washington. Most of the questions he faced at the congressional hearings and most of the analysis in the press were about Facebook’s failure to protect privacy. That’s the sort of thing that may be uppermost on your mind if you are socially wealthy, if, like most successful politicians and analysts, you live within a thick web of connection and…
If it's not the role of government to solve problems that are tearing apart the fabric of society, then whose role is it? Who is going to do it? Maybe no one. Maybe we're all screwed.