The first few years was just about fun and sharing high points of our lives (I was then pulled into Facebook by MMO clanmates initially for the casual games and for group communications). But then just came the fringers, the lechers, and the extremists, before entities like Cambridge Analytica arrived with the idea social media could also be used to manipulate the masses.
absolutely. Social media is a malign cancer of the web AND real life.
I was there (3000 years ago) when the internet begun, it hurts so much to see how social media did spread the rot. As if the other rot by google and the majority of big tech wasn’t enough already.
Yeah the irony of us dissing social media…on Lemmy 😁
Social media was a mistake.
The first few years was just about fun and sharing high points of our lives (I was then pulled into Facebook by MMO clanmates initially for the casual games and for group communications). But then just came the fringers, the lechers, and the extremists, before entities like Cambridge Analytica arrived with the idea social media could also be used to manipulate the masses.
absolutely. Social media is a malign cancer of the web AND real life. I was there (3000 years ago) when the internet begun, it hurts so much to see how social media did spread the rot. As if the other rot by google and the majority of big tech wasn’t enough already.
Yeah the irony of us dissing social media…on Lemmy 😁