"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
04/29/2019 at 09:11 • Filed to: None
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"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
04/29/2019 at 09:11 • Filed to: None | 2
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The above article ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! if Kinja’d) sums up my feelings on twitter and social media pretty nicely. Worth a read, but here are a few tl;dr excerpts:
Ever since Donald Trump made Twitter his preferred medium for communicating with the country, the platform has taken an outsize hold on the American imagination. Once a forum on which users could discuss the day’s news, Twitter now just as often sets the day’s agenda
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“When you’re on Twitter, every controversy feels like it’s at the same level of importance,” one influential Democratic strategist told me. Over time, he found it more and more difficult to tune Twitter out: “People whose perception of reality is shaped by Twitter live in a different world and a different country than those off Twitter.” (I granted the strategist anonymity in exchange for candor.)
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America’s political class now lives in a bubble that has been made more, rather than less, impenetrable by the technological changes of the past years. Instead of connecting America’s elites to ordinary people, Twitter has amplified the beliefs of a small band of hyper-political partisans
ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 09:36 |
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We all thought the sound byte was the worst possible distillation of a complex issue. Twitter takes it to a whole new level. Though created with perhaps the best of intentions (you know, to make money), social media has perhaps been the single worst thing to happen to society in a long time. Any time you try to express your opinion in as few words as possible you are bound to say something immensely stupid.
The Internet is the greatest thing in the world because it gives everybody a voice. The Internet is also the worst thing in the world because it gives everybody a voice.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
04/29/2019 at 09:41 |
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Exactly — the prime reason I avoid sites like YouTube is because everyone has equal access to post garbage OR valuable information. Delineating the two is becoming impossible at worst; time-consuming at best.
The whole point of editorial review — be it TV stations, newspapers, magazines, etc — is that you pay qualified people to curate and edit things to reduce the noise of everyday life. We as a society have instead chosen to embrace the noise of the masses....and the only things we notice are the loudest ones, since nobody it editing it anymore.
That’s my theory behind why some version of magazine and newspapers will eventually make a comeback. We have to reach fatigue at some point, then traditional, professional media will seem like a premium
novelty in comparison.
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ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 09:47 |
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Everything in history is a pendulum. We swing one way until that becomes untenable, then we react and begin to swing the other way. I just hope that happens sooner rather than later.
StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 10:37 |
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My happiest decision in life right now is not having a Twitter account. FB comments on political articles are the worst though, really brings to light just how many horrible people there are out there.
Kanaric
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 10:47 |
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Twitter is an annoyance but I don’t think it’s as big of a problem as people make it out to be. The bigger problem isn’t that twitter has random people posting nonsense, same with youtube and flat earth videos and all that. That isn’t that big of a problem. The bigger problem is talk radio and tv news catering to people like this.
Like daytime news for example and these women’s shows always are pushing magical nonsense all the time . Bill Maher for example was antivaxx at one point but the early morning and daytime talking heads had pushed that shit for a while. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are all really bad at taking things out of context for their agendas. News has pushed bullshit for a LONG time now. I remember watching Bowling for Columbine talking about how the US news is basically all fear mongering and that was a while ago now. It had been like that for a couple of decades even before that documentary.
I think people know, aside boomers, to not trust random internet morons. The REALLY dumb people who watch these “Hidden World History”, “Spirit Science” and Flat Earth videos on youtube and believe that always were going to believe something stupid.
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ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 10:50 |
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Can you post a link to the whole piece? Thanks.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
04/29/2019 at 10:54 |
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We have a family FB account under a pseudonym that we use to just to stay caught up on local/neighborhood issues and news (things that there is no other way to learn, since nobody really talks to each other much anymore, and it’s too localized to be on the news or in a paper). People we know are aware of the name and respect our privacy. We never post anything or maintain a profile.
My main beef with FB isn’t the political stuff, it’s just privacy. Not from Zuckerberg, but from all the randos I’ve met in my life and don’t want finding me. I’m still of the “anonymity era” on the web, where you don’t share your real name or detailed location.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
04/29/2019 at 10:55 |
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FFUUUUUUUU
... ck Kinja. The preview worked great, now I see it’s missing. I’ll try to edit.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 11:04 |
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“ We have a family FB account under a pseudonym that we use to just to stay caught up on local/neighborhood issues and news (things that there is no other way to learn, since nobody really talks to each other much anymore”
And therein lies the real problem. People don’t talk to each other anymore. Makes it pretty hard to build a cohesive society if people can’t even build communities.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> DipodomysDeserti
04/29/2019 at 11:06 |
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I have a whole editorial just waiting to be written, but the jist is that anyone who is NOT on FB is a second-class citizen in their social circle. This has always been the case with teens and 20s, but I’m talking about all of society.
When we get together with people, it’s like they’re all halfway through their conversation when we start. And nobody wants to fill you in. It’s like always being on the outside of an inside joke. And YOU’RE the weirdo, not them. Truly bizarre world.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/29/2019 at 13:37 |
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I’ve never used a Facebook account and I’m in my early thirties. Thankfully for me, my social circle is made up of people I consider brothers and sisters who I’ve been friends with for at least ten to fifteen years. There’s been some new blood mixed in over the years, but they’ve all generally had the same outlook as far as having human connections are concerned.
However, I have witnessed what you describe, and it truly is bizarre. It breeds a passive aggressiveness among people that I just do not have time for. My friends and I are all aggressive-aggressive, so that type of behavior doesn’t last long around us.