Social media sucks
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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People call stuff like Lemmy, 4chan or Reddit social media too but to me it's always these Facebook or Instagram style self-presentation platforms. All of them suck ass.
I'd categorize these as forums rather than social media. I mean there isnt that much socializing happening around here
Neither is it on social media anymore, it's all just dick measuring, scams, MLMs, attention seeking and hating on outgroups now.
I call it asocial media, personally.
Anti-social media.
Forums are also social medias
There's more socialising here than on Facebook. Imagine trying to discuss philosophy on Facebook. Wouldn't work. Reddit is much moreso social media than Facebook is.
True those are definitely worse
One thing I'm not a fan of is the argument that "it is what you make of it," because platforms act entirely differently depending on the other users, the algorithms, methods of interaction, interface, content and culture. Its very difficult for me to to have a good time on facebook because it fails in a lot of those aspects: toxic users, algorithms tbat push nonsense, a bad interface, incompatible content and culture. The general theme is that many social media sites end up being very polarizing and echo chambery.
Envy has existed far longer than social media, none of these things would go away if social media doesn't exist. Social media just amplifies it.
Comparison has always been the thief of joy.
Yep, "keeping up with the Jones's" was a phrase I heard growing up in the 1980s
Also, attachment leads to suffering
Communication is a good thing.
But that's not what most social media facilitates. The mainstream platforms were about staying in touch with friends and family, once, but now they are about parasocial celebrity worship and broadcasting your life in a fake light of endless positivity. All the while secretly hating the habit of feigned contentment, never realising everyone else is doing the same.
Social media could be about sharing our passions, forming real and meaningful connections with other individuals around the world, as well as truly coming to know ourselves as a species on a global scale.
Some small parts of it are exactly that.
Those are the parts I'm trying to perpetuate and nurture, and though they are a tiny part of the whole thing right now, it does mean it isn't all bad.
Comparison is the thief of joy
Nah that would be Bill, who stole my bottle of Joy when he house sat.
buy it in bulk my dude, just use any ol squeeze bottle. Those bottles of Joy are easy come easy go
Did you really buy these, thisbenzinggring, or should I call you by your real name, Bill?
Especially easy go when Bill’s over
I think this lesson can be valuable but I also feel like it can be flippant to the point of implying everyone's situation is equally bad or good, which is very dismissive of those in truly bad positions in life.
especially since this comic includes a poor dude and it goes like "at least his dog is still alive", bruh
Verging on toxic positivity.
Judging what a bad position in life is is pretty subjective.
There are some we can probably all agree on as a bad position, but none of those portrayed here fit those.
I too drive with my cellphone in one hand and my gut in the other.
Cars can be parked!? Big if true...
Or LA traffic. Which, now that I think about it, is the same thing.
Metro is the way
I ride a motorcycle and can confirm that most drivers use this method.
Then it cuts to the dog using social media looking at skeletons.
sobbing over my phone because I couldn’t stop a friend from pairing full-bodied red wine with lobster
This is like that other comic about 'girls only like guys who treat them right' (i dunno the name) but actually good.
Grass is brown all the way around
You know you're fucked up when seeing things that are happy makes you sad and angry.
Yeah, the last three panels actually bug me (though for different reasons).
This hit me just right today. Good reminder to be grateful for what we have.
One of these is not like the others
Ha yeah everybody is miserable.
Fuck
I find this sad yet soothing song very fitting.
We all lost our hearts
Trying to feel good
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