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At some point, the general population has to realize that the relationship with social media is pretty one-sided. It's an egregiously impersonal landscape with zero regards for personal well being. Plain and simple, social media companies exist to cash in on your personal data.
But that's not what's going on here. It's not that anyone has taken a stand against business motives or impersonal exploitation of incidental intimacy, within the context of this particular story.
In these anecdotes, the people mentioned are rebelling for different reasons, in an effort to control choices relating to personal habits, as they modify what are perceived as necessary social obligations and compulsory public behavior, when interacting with modern technology and devices.
These are really two sides of the same coin. Commercial companies are getting people to behave in ways that are contrary to their own benefit. Now the people are starting to realize it, and are stopping. Soon the commercial companies will realize what is happening, and I guess go into some sort of panic.
It's not just the companies behind it that are a problem.
The concept of civil debate and discourse is, in large part a thing of the past. Issue any opinion, politely, well reasoned on facebook and you most likely be savaged.
In my experience there is plenty of civil debate and discourse going on, just that Facebook isn't where it's happening, except may be some closed groups.
Even in the small city I live in, population ~87,000, there are two regular philosophy meet ups and a skeptics group. The local state university hosts regular guest speakers. There is a tonne of podcasts and books produced from around the world with vastly differing opinions.
What % of your city's population attends philosophy meetups or skeptics groups? Would you say it's more than 0.1% ?
As for university talks, at least at my university they were attended by a tiny minority of students. Most students went only to the lectures they had to for class and did something else in their free time than go to more lectures. Outside of students and the occasional professor, it was rare for these talks to be attended by anyone else, unless someone really famous was talking -- even then, only a small minority of the people in the surrounding area would even hear of these events, much less bother to go.
The sad fact is that most people, in the US at least, aren't very interested in intellectual pursuits like this. They'd much rather go to a ballgame, party, watch TV, or hang out at the bar.
87 people. Probably far too high. But maybe over a year 87 different people fade in and out of a group.
But those 87 people know and talk to 100 other people each,that's 10% of the city.
Go two degrees of separation and it's the whole town.
Students in a town generally only know other students. Students are actually pretty secluded. But normal people? They know their families, they know their friends, they know their colleagues, the people they do their hobbies with, their local shop owners, the people in their local Baby groups, the other parents in their schools, the people who the volunteer with, etc.
It's about how ideas spread, not about how many people are in one group.
"But those 87 people know and talk to 100 other people each,that's 10% of the city. Go two degrees of separation and it's the whole town."
While it's true that each of the people at these tiny gatherings probably know and talk to at least 10 people each, and those people talk to another 10 people each, that doesn't mean that they're talking about philosophy or skepticism. Most people just don't want to hear about either of those subjects, or anything else intellectual.
>Even in the small city I live in, population ~87,000
My guess is things like this are a lot more likely to happen in a small city than a large one, or at least a much higher percentage of the population will be involved.
Perhaps rather poorly, I was trying to point out that aggression and hostility are now normalized discourse for the masses. I expect stupidity on facebook, but naked hostility is now the norm in my opinion.
The monetisation is one aspect of course but a lot of the toxicity of social media comes from its hyper-politicisation and virtue signalling which coincided with the Millenials coming online. The quality of the discourse was then radically different from Usenet, IRC and other proto-social media like Livejournal.
> At some point, the general population has to realize that the relationship with social media is pretty one-sided.
Sure, but most people use social media to maintain their relationships with people. Kids on Instagram aren't talking to Instagram - they're talking to their peers, friends, family.
It's, IME, very common for immigrants (especially those that immigrated in middle age) to be intelligible to native speakers when speaking the local language, but have more trouble understanding native speakers. So one-way translation may be useful.
Really? I have found the exact opposite. You can pick up a lot of clues from words, expression, tone, without knowing the entire sentence. But that doesn't help in talking to them.
There are costs and benefits to choosing this line of work. The benefit is obviously the freedom to work when you want. Meanwhile, there is a hefty cost of being a contract worker - which comes with a lot of hurdles.
That's inane. PE and VC have raised more funds last year than since the GFC. There's plenty of cash, more than enough, cash to go around without these illegal securities ICOs getting in the mix.
And when I say plenty of cash, I am talking in the aggregate. I don't make any statements about whether or not it's being correctly distributed.
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