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Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society
The Verge ^
| December 11,2017
| By James Vincent
Posted on 12/12/2017 12:52:56 PM PST by Hojczyk
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posted on
12/12/2017 12:52:56 PM PST
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posted on
12/12/2017 12:55:34 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(This forum is a Doug Jones free zone! Go Roy Moore!)
To: Hojczyk
Ive been saying that since social media came out.
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posted on
12/12/2017 12:59:21 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Hojczyk
No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And its not an American problem this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.The big misinformation and mistruth problem comes from Big Media, not social media.
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posted on
12/12/2017 12:59:34 PM PST
by
FreeReign
To: Vaquero
The ongoing civil war is tearing America apart.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:01:16 PM PST
by
RC one
(The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
To: RC one
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:03:33 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Hojczyk
I heard of this facebook thing, never tried it, not sure why anyone would in the first place??
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:04:32 PM PST
by
eyeamok
(Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
To: DoughtyOne
Social media doesn’t rip anything apart. Excessive, unreasonable use of social media favors the breakdown of social ties among people, of which there are already too few.
Ripping social media out of our hands isn’t going to get people to talk and interact with those who they don’t know. It would lead to people staring at the floor, or reading magazines, rather than interact with those around them.
What annoys me royally is the teenager with one white cord dangling from each ear who does not acknowledge the existence of other people. The dumb smartphone doesn’t cause this. It does allow it to thrive.
The breakdown took place before social media/smartphones/ear cords.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:07:01 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Liberalism is just another form of insanity.)
To: I want the USA back
I understand what you’re trying to say, and I do agree with you.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:10:30 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(This forum is a Doug Jones free zone! Go Roy Moore!)
To: Hojczyk
Just take off the social part and its true.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:11:09 PM PST
by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
To: Hojczyk
So, Ted Kaczynski was right? Right message, insane message delivery method.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:13:51 PM PST
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: Vaquero
Me too. I’ve said for a long time that before television and the automobile, the classes rarely mingled. But TV brought them together. Poor people got the same dose of consumerism commercials for expensive products gave to the middle class and the rich. This created strong dissatisfaction with their condition that, truth be told, most could do nothing about.
And now with social media, it is the same thing on steroids.
We will not survive intact.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:18:32 PM PST
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: Hojczyk
The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops weve created are destroying how society works, he said, Well stated. I agree.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:21:52 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: Vaquero
Ive been saying that since social media came out.And then you were unfriended.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:37:19 PM PST
by
pfflier
To: Hojczyk
It isn’t the tool that makes the wielder corrupt.
It isn’t the gun that kills.
It isn’t the software that is corrupting society.
I use social media to stay in much closer contact with my extended family then I ever would have otherwise. I am able to share and receive photos, updates, etc much quicker than via other means.
Every tool can be misused - just like a gun, knife, printing press can be misused - so can social media.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:41:03 PM PST
by
reed13k
To: pfflier
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:44:02 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vaquero
When your whole world revolves around Social Media
You have a problem.
Whats your Twitter handle, I’ll try to let you know you have a problem.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:45:07 PM PST
by
TheShaz
To: eyeamok
People either love it or hate it. I love it.
To: Hojczyk
I have to agree. Social Media is the worst thing to happen to society. Another tool the left uses to convert the masses to their side
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:46:00 PM PST
by
Angels27
To: TheShaz
I do enjoy Trumps tweets. Never had a handle there. Never lost any sleep over the fact.
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posted on
12/12/2017 1:51:15 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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