The case against social media is stronger than you think
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The case against social media is stronger than you think
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#2These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.
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#3My main case against at this point is that everything you post will be accessible by "bad" AI
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#4I think to be clear that’s “The case against algorithmic*” social media”, the kind that uses engagement as a core driver.
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#5These question-begging, click-bait something-is-something-other-than-you-think posts are something less entertaining than the poster thinks.
Yup. Soon as I read:
> I am going to focus on the putative political impacts of social media
I closed the tab.
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#6Man, blah, blah, blah...
That article needs to have about 80% of the words cut out of it.
When the author straight up tells you: I'm posting this in an attempt to increase my subscribership, you know you're in for some blathering.
In spite of that, personally I think algorithmic feeds have had a terrible effect on many people.
I've never participated, and never will...
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#7I really hate the narrative that social media has increased polarization knowing that my still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south where they were literally separated from society because of the color of their skin.
The country has always been hostile to “other”. People just have a larger platform to get their message out.
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#9I really hate the narrative that social media has increased polarization knowing that my still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south where they were literally separated from society because of the color of their skin. The country has always been hostile to “other”. People just have a larger platform to get their message out.
The article mentions this. It tries to argue the significance of that platform.
Re: The case against social media is stronger than you think
#10I really hate the narrative that social media has increased polarization knowing that my still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south where they were literally separated from society because of the color of their skin. The country has always been hostile to “other”. People just have a larger platform to get their message out.
> The country has always been hostile to “other”. People just have a larger platform to get their message out.
And a consequence of this is that some people’s perspective of the scale of the nation’s hostilities is limited to the last 5 years or so.