The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media

Post by zhengwang » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC

freshwaters wrote: post #38

The most alarming part of the article for me was the reference to climate change and its impending consequences. I I may say I've been living under quite a rock for I hadn't thought of it as mentioned here in this paragraph: " The book’s most fascinating and disturbing chapter is about how the Internet, the primary vector of information about climate change, is increasingly a vector of the problem itself. The world’s…

I read the IPCC report in grad school and was incredibly alarmed. Honestly it appears doubtful that short of a massive breakthrough in carbon sequestration there is no chance we will be able to stop whats coming.

Post by Nasrudith » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 5:17 PM UTC

thfuran wrote: post #117

eksemplar wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m European, so using twitter in that way would be really illegal. Having children of my own, I’m really happy they weren’t shared on an American social media-platform for the entire world to see. We do have digital platforms for sharing stuff like that, but they are operated by the schools and the data is encrypted, access locked to the correct parties and the data is t kept forever. That way, you can actually also…

It still baffles me that we went from a common wisdom of "don't share personal information on the internet with anyone" to "chronicle your life on the internet publicly" in a few years. I think the first was a bit of an overreaction, but far closer to a sane level of prudence than the current state of affairs.

It isn't too surprising - the first popularly wasn't because of sensible "permanent reputation effects" or similar but scare mongering that giving your state and real first name was a sure way to get raped and murdered. Even sensationalist press couldn't find enough to spam even with fabrications like Nintendo DS's pictochat being a pedophile nest and it lost the new and scary factor. So between that crying wolf and the trend following and desire to be famous the shift makes sense.

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