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Originally Posted by LivingInSalt
lol one of the most ignorant statements I’ve read on here
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There’s a difference between people meeting others and connecting online, and children meeting and connecting with strangers online. Very different things. His/her statement isn’t ignorant at all. You wouldn’t plop your 12 year old down in a strange metro area and say “ok honey. Find someone to spend time with and bring you home.” Want to do that as an adult? Have at it.
As for my other issues with social media - I don’t have any besides some car forums. Thank heavens I don’t. It’s a cesspool.
When “conversations” are limited to 150 characters, or can just be thrust upon millions without a chance for actual dialogue, it dehumanizes it. My friend base consists of VERY different people. When you take a chance to truly talk about things, even when you disagree, you see context and individual experiences and can *learn* from each other. Online discourse and social media has killed that. Not only that, but it’s easy to place yourself in an echo chamber that only reinforces what you believe and doesn’t force you to critically examine other points of view, or your own views.
But hey. The rich and powerful that run these services and the politicians who exploit it like it that’s way. We’re a lot more similar than many think, and the more we fight each other and hate each other the less attention gets paid to their reprehensible and abhorrent behavior in search of money, power and dominion.