I am about up to my neck now of people scapegoating social media as a concept, to excuse themselves from their shitty behavior. Because I sincerely doubt that malicious intent, misinformation and this overwhelming level of ‘toxicity’ was the core design of every social media platform in their humble beginnings.
I have been online long enough to know, that from BBS Boards to IRC Servers to Yahoo/AOL Chat Rooms to MySpace to Facebook that people who have registered onto those places, have always taken their collective dumps in them. And never owing to them so it must all be because these places just exist, right?
Wrong.
America is on the cusp of collapse. When you go back 30 years and ask what the difference is between then and now, I think the most obvious answer is the prevalence of social media. Social media is destroying our social order.
I would say the most obvious answer is the increasing authoritarianism of our government and power granted to the wealthy, especially since 9/11 and Reagan.
and Fox News
I would blame the corruption of journalistic integrity, the overreaching government and how history is written by the winners rhetoric before I ever blame social media as to why society is the way it is. The internet has only amplified it and social media isn’t the internet, it is simply a part of it which is another thing people completely refuse to understand.