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| author | Andrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org> | 2022-09-11 18:08:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org> | 2022-09-11 18:08:19 +0200 |
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diff --git a/note/social-media.html b/note/social-media.html index e006b4d..c017342 100644 --- a/note/social-media.html +++ b/note/social-media.html @@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ </head> <body> <h1>Social Media</h1> - <p>I do not use social media. I do not find social media to be meaningful.</p> - <p>Social media as I understand it is based on ``microblogging'', i.e. short posts about a person's life, thoughts, etc. Social media is usually designed in a quick ``consumption''-oriented style, often leading to flamewars instead of in-depth discussions because of its ``quick'' and ``short'' nature. Social media recommends new posts and people to people based on what they ``like'' and ``boost'' further creating an information cocoon, ``shielding'' them from new ideas, rather than allowing for natural human distribution of good articles.</p> - <p>Instead, I read and write <a href="/#articles">articles</a> and <a href="/#other-articles">share</a> those that impress me naturally.</p> + <p>Referring to things like Facebook, Twitter, and similar: I do not use social media. I do not find social media to be meaningful.</p> + <p>Social media as I understand it is based on ``microblogging'', i.e. short posts about a person's life, thoughts, etc. Sharing random fun facts about life is fine, but it's really suboptimal for thoughts, especially political ones. Social media is usually designed in a quick ``consumption''-oriented style, often leading to flamewars instead of in-depth discussions because of its ``quick'' and ``short'' nature. Modern social media recommends new posts and people to people based on what they ``like'' and ``boost'' further creating an information cocoon, ``shielding'' them from new ideas, rather than allowing for natural human distribution of good articles.</p> + <p>Instead, I read and write <a href="/#articles">articles</a> and <a href="/other-articles/">share</a> those that impress me naturally.</p> <p>Most popular social media services <a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">such as facebook</a> are also nonfree and have extra problems.</p> + <p>Sharing some fun facts about life is okay. <a href="/life.html">I do that too.</a> Just don't use microblogging for should-be-extensive topics and don't use these ``posts feed'' things.</p> <p><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/09/Fediverse-toxicity.html">The Fediverse can be pretty toxic</a> by <a href="https://drewdevault.com/">Drew Devault</a>, founder (I remember?) of <a href="https://sourcehut.org/">SourceHut</a></p> <div id="footer"> <hr /> |