Man you're pedantic and probably someone who lives 2 miles from where you grew up. I have a brother who just had a new born living in a different continent. So I should write 2-4 week letters to him because some schizo online demands I never use social media? Or do I keep my social media profile I made 15 years ago which i hardly ever use to see pictures he has posted of my first nephew?
Social media is a great tool when it's used for what it was meant to be. It's a shitty tool when you base your opinion and get your news off of it. Just like a gun the danger is not the gun but the person wielding it.
When I meet a girl from france travelling I should ask for her address her phone number and email or just add her on whichever social media she uses?
You don’t understand what social media actually is, which is fine, it is a complex topic. If you’d like to know what social media actually is, I can lay it all out for you here but will take me some time.
To be concise, removing social media from your relationships with your loved ones is one of the absolute healthiest things you can do for said relationships.
Longer answer if you want it just ask please. I’ll take the time if you care to read it.
Talking cryptically and assuming what my view is doesn't make you right. As I plainly said I casually use social media to talk to friends and family around holiday and look at their pics. I have ublock so I get no targeted ads. I've become a social media tourist and quite plainly said why I won't delete mine.
Now you can have your obscure secret reason of why it's so bad to have social media. I know why I quit using it (other than how I've explained) and it's because humanity is fucking retarded and the narcissism and arrogance it breeds is too glaring to ignore nevermind the cult of agreeableness it creates.
It is not a secret or cryptic at all. The issue is it is a dense topic and will require about an hour of my time to rehash the argument.
You seem to understand the problem already, but have yet to cut the cord. You're still in the "but I use it to communicate" phase.
I suspect soon you will be firmly in the "never, ever use it, and discourage everyone I care about from using it either" camp.
The core of the issue is allowing a service to become the medium of connection for human interaction. The inherent problems with this should be self evident, and you clearly see much of it.
I'd link to longer form analysis of this topic but it would be doxxing myself so for now this is about as much as I can say about it. If you want to continue debating though I am fine with that and you'll eventually coax the full story out of me.
If anything, please question the motivation behind the service. How do they make money? How do you fit into that role? What are their motivations? Who are they sharing your data with? What will they do with that data, today, tomorrow, and 200 years from now?
Disconnect my friend, our collective future depends on it.
“It is how I keep in touch” is an awful excuse.
Call, write, visit. Getting in touch is trivially easy.
Man you're pedantic and probably someone who lives 2 miles from where you grew up. I have a brother who just had a new born living in a different continent. So I should write 2-4 week letters to him because some schizo online demands I never use social media? Or do I keep my social media profile I made 15 years ago which i hardly ever use to see pictures he has posted of my first nephew?
Social media is a great tool when it's used for what it was meant to be. It's a shitty tool when you base your opinion and get your news off of it. Just like a gun the danger is not the gun but the person wielding it.
When I meet a girl from france travelling I should ask for her address her phone number and email or just add her on whichever social media she uses?
You don’t understand what social media actually is, which is fine, it is a complex topic. If you’d like to know what social media actually is, I can lay it all out for you here but will take me some time.
To be concise, removing social media from your relationships with your loved ones is one of the absolute healthiest things you can do for said relationships.
Longer answer if you want it just ask please. I’ll take the time if you care to read it.
Talking cryptically and assuming what my view is doesn't make you right. As I plainly said I casually use social media to talk to friends and family around holiday and look at their pics. I have ublock so I get no targeted ads. I've become a social media tourist and quite plainly said why I won't delete mine.
Now you can have your obscure secret reason of why it's so bad to have social media. I know why I quit using it (other than how I've explained) and it's because humanity is fucking retarded and the narcissism and arrogance it breeds is too glaring to ignore nevermind the cult of agreeableness it creates.
It is not a secret or cryptic at all. The issue is it is a dense topic and will require about an hour of my time to rehash the argument.
You seem to understand the problem already, but have yet to cut the cord. You're still in the "but I use it to communicate" phase.
I suspect soon you will be firmly in the "never, ever use it, and discourage everyone I care about from using it either" camp.
The core of the issue is allowing a service to become the medium of connection for human interaction. The inherent problems with this should be self evident, and you clearly see much of it.
I'd link to longer form analysis of this topic but it would be doxxing myself so for now this is about as much as I can say about it. If you want to continue debating though I am fine with that and you'll eventually coax the full story out of me.
If anything, please question the motivation behind the service. How do they make money? How do you fit into that role? What are their motivations? Who are they sharing your data with? What will they do with that data, today, tomorrow, and 200 years from now?
Disconnect my friend, our collective future depends on it.