Religious warfare and a double twitter meta
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Funnily enough, religious rituals, fervor and propaganda will do more for them than hundreds of thousands of foreign supporters doing nothing but tweeting and spectating.
Oh for fuck’s sake…
Can we just… Kill the internet, or something?
Cringe…
The internet is just a communications medium. Your issue is with humanity.
A section of humanity? Maybe.
I’m not that misanthropic. I just know stupid shit when I see it.
Prior to the internet, this shit simply would not be an issue, because retards like in this image didn’t have a medium to spout their ignorance and stupidity to such a wide audience. So no, frankly, I disagree.
The internet is not just a medium. It contributes greatly to the division and spread of bullshit that we so often see.
I genuinely believe it is a net negative for humanity. You can disagree, but fundamentally… I do think that this “communications medium” will be the end of us, smh…
"The digital revolution and and its' consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
I will say that the smartphone is the worst invention in history. People do not need, and should not have, that sort of communication available to them at all times.
If you want to be terminally online then sit at your PC all day (like me).
You do make a point, however, the internet also spreads truth. I've developed many skills and educated myself about the true state of the world through the internet. Without it, we'd only have corporate media.
Oh undeniably so. We wouldn’t be having this conversation, of course, without it.
But you’re forgetting that things like community media exist. Sure, “street press” and “zines” tend to have a rather frustrating political bent, but they’re still a thing.
And phones, texts, mail, hell, even email and forums existed before the internet became the bloated hell it is today…
I don’t necessarily hate the concept of the medium that allows, say, sites like this to exist. I hate the fact that in its current forum it has completely erased not only entire segments of life, entire functionalities (see below), but also a lot of that… “Early internet”. The good stuff is largely gone. Even before they killed Flash, it was disappearing faster than I had any idea of…
Frankly, I don’t much like what is left, lol.
A lot of this is down to the dominance of the monolithic three (Apple, Facebook, Google), but there’s clearly more happening than just that…
Its not really the internet per se so much as smartphones and social media. That allowed everyone's stupid opinions to be put on full display for the world to see.
Sounds like an awful lot like what used to be said about TV, Radio and Newspapper. If only you could choose what you consume...
Nah, I'm with bamboozler on this one.
Never thought I’d say this but.... I agree.
It was such a great place in the 90s / early 2000s, now it’s the bane of humanity.
Completely agree.
I didn’t get to see so much of “that internet”, but I’m old enough to remember the difference. Oddly, most people I know either don’t remember that period of it, or deliberately deny that there even is a difference, which I find deeply frustrating…
It’s also being forced to use digital means to do stuff which is actually easier to do analog - like, say, physically submitting an assignment by hand (not necessarily handwritten, but at least existing on paper, lol), vs being forced to put the entire thing through Turnitin or similar, myself, and then not allowed to submit until it is below a certain score…
Even for a pure maths subject….
That was a shock when I went back to Uni, I’ll tell you that much.
It’s pure laziness on the part of the assessor, too…
See also: subjects that assign you “McGrath Hill Connect” or similar, as a task, which require no marking on the part of the teacher whatsoever…
Or the gutting of entire libraries, to put in more “own device” spaces, collaborative or otherwise…
These changes only really happened post-2016 (that I saw), they’re entirely reliant on “the new internet”, and they’re really, really worrying…
Most “government services” (licenses, forms, etc) where I am can no longer be accessed in person now, too. Which is fucking awful, when the online system doesn’t do what you want it to, or whatever…
Just stop using social media for anything more than communicating with people you know IRL.
People you know IRL can be pretty shitty online, too, to be fair…
This is, in no small part, the problem…
My rule still applies although I may have omitted to mention one important detail.
Stop using social media for anything more than communicating with people you know IRL via PMs.
Going to be real. I honestly don't care about what happens to these fucks. I just wanna go back to isolationism.
I guess they never heard of these things