Social Media's Impact

I’m of the opinion that social media isn’t authentic, because there’s products to sell on personal insecurities generated by popular joke structures and the such. Either way your social media site will be geared to push products, a very totalitarian consumerism model. The microphones and algorithms on and listening and projecting commercials for products. If any of that is real, and it is very real, then you can expect an unreal feel to social media. Social media fans are entirely wrapped up in the social media dopamine releasing and blocking effects it has on its consumers. I’d say it is helping generate artificial people in general, built around the hype of social media. These people aren’t the same as social media avoiders. They literally are being trained for low-intelligence, low-attention span, disgusting models of points of view on life. Many of them already adhere to it like a religion. I’d say without removing the commercialization of insecurities from algorithm generating consumer models for products, all that you’ll ever get out of social media, is a low-intelligence, low-attention span model of humanity, that’s attracted to bad jokes and impulse buying based around insecurities and superficial (and probably unethical) desires.

It truly feels like it’s wasting my life and I don’t feel social on it at all — I engage with strangers occasionally but it doesn’t connect me to friends anymore. Instead it steals my attention when I know I should be doing other things so it actually makes me feel pretty bad about myself most of the time.

That would be cool. As someone in the social media analytics space (use your tiktok and reels data to figure out what to make next), your platform could benefit form using a similar strategy that BeReal did, similar userbase with similar problem

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I used to feel social media actually helped with updating/keeping up with ur loved ones or friends wherever u are, but now it is still there but it gets draining seeing people doing so much for getting viral or followers... it used to feel like albums for the treasured experience in ur life but now it is like people want things so curated and if not they have something to say...it feels like it is making people dumb and less respectful of boundaries/privacy just for sake of fun or money.

mixed honestly. fun when I'm just watching sports clips, but I kinda get stuck reading ban threads and every notice sounds way more dramatic than it is

It’s a great idea