Social Media
 

I think for some of us, one of the few reasons we stay on this website is because we're all friends with each other. Well, I searched and couldn't find a thread where everybody layed down any social media accounts they felt like sharing. There's also this new app called Cymbal that I've been into. It's basically Instagram with music streamed right from Spotify and Soundcloud.

Anyway, post if you're cool with people knowing your sh*t. If not, this is a good way for The Batlord to stalk some of us.

Twitter - @booththoughts (Film blog stuff but it's also my personal account)
@seussosophies (My novelty account)
Snapchat - joe7389
Lastfm - Chainsaw89
Cymbal - Exoskeletal
Film Blog - http://www.thoughtsfromthebooth.com

I made a cymbal thread and none of you mother ****ers could bother to reply... I'll follow you though.

My twitter, instagram, and SC are all IAmRileyC, add/follow me if you want folks.

**** social media Im here fer you ppl .But I purposely tried to drop off the face of the social media .

I only have an instagram that I never upload to.. "xantisocialmedia"

Just search "Robert Baccetti" on Facebook and you've found me. Add me if ya want.

My Steam account is "Pwnasaurus Rekt". Feel free to add me there as well and we can play games togethe sometime

Twitter @adonisdevereux

That's all ked and I got.

@Ki Whats your addresss^?

Hilarious.

can confirm that I am an A+ snapper. @nmelny - follow me and my debauchery.

My facebook. Add me if you feel like it. https://www.facebook.com/justin.aspinall

I don't post much, but sometimes.

I've got snapchat now btw: rbaccetti

Snapchat: funlvngcrmnl
Instagram: Silvercro21(if you want to see pics of home cooked meals, I usually take a picture of my dinner and post it up on Insta.)
Twitter: @Funlvngcrmnl (I don't use it that much but every once in awhile I will retweet some stuff.)
Facebook: Andrei Clark (if you don't have it already)

I want to check out that Cymbal thing when I finally get around to it some time later today. I will post my username for that too.

Either use vowels or don't... ... ...

Either use ellipses properly or don't.

I recently joined a FB group for people that lived in my old neighborhood just for the nostalgia and to see if I'd maybe run into any of my old childhood friends. A few days ago I posted something about a five and dime shop I used to go to with my grandma and holy moly people started coming out of the woodwork. Last night I got a reply from a lady that knew my mom and dad. I remembered her well and I also remember my parents getting a divorce and she was somehow involved. She said she thought of my parents a lot over the years and I showed her love and compassion to hopefully have some closure on everything that happened over 50 years ago and I think we both came away from this little experience with a sense of healing and compassion. Without SM, I really don't think this could have happened.

Wait so she was ****ing your dad?

My Dad was a player. Player.

When I want to communicate with someone I do what any sane person would do. It's very easy to get a quill, dip it in some Indian ink, scribe out my message, roll up the paper, seal it with a ribbon and then impress my personal wax seal on it so that nobody can read it who ain't supposed to. Take that, hackers! Then I ties it to one of my carrier pigeons, say a quick prayer to the Great Pixie and let him go! If I'm lucky I'll probably get a rapid response - once I even heard back from the person in the same year!

Nah look, social media is great for some very important stuff, but without its existence all this disinformation and ****ing conspiracy theory bull**** would not have reached as many ears and eyes as it has, and a lot more people might still be alive. The world would be in a better place without it so basically **** social media. I'll never use it.

tl;dr: social media = evil

:love: Thats wild.

I recently ran into people I played little league baseball with on Twitter. Doubt they remember me though.

Lulz

MySpace was actually cool though, sure it was full of cringy emo teens and busy overdesigned customized pages that were complete eyesores and took 30 minutes to load but dammit that gave it character, vastly superior to the conspiracy theory pushing, hate filled boomer hellscape that is Facebook.

I used PimpMySpace to customize my page. It still looked like Homer Simpson designed it but it was kinda neat.

Also, Bat having this for an av was hilarious:

https://i.insider.com/4efd9b8b69bedd...jpeg&auto=webp

Isn't FB functioning like actual infrastructure for millions of people in America these days? As in this is where people buy and sell stuff, find employment etc. Myspace could never embed itself into society to this (or any, tbh) degree

I made hip-hop beats on myspace, at that time I ran two hip-hop websites/forums and they were exactly like musicbanter. My beats got to the number one spot in the independent label section. I would fluctuate from number 1 to number 20 and just basically got viral listens. I got credit for the beats in a music course in high school, but it was like a huge deal when I dropped a new beat, wow I am so lame now :o:

Thinking about social media now, once everyone went to Facebook around 2004-2008 ish, there weren't ways to connect old friends from myspace to Facebook. Plus YouTube becoming popular, sharing on facebook's "wall" became more popular than sharing on a myspace 'wall' lol

The only thing Facebook has going for it is the connection of people who don't want to start a Twitter, plus its Facebook Marketplace. The Marketplace is top level!

I stopped using Facebook about a year ago. All I did was bitch and moan about things I seen on Facebook :laughing:

I use Instagram and Snapchat but I use them far too often for my liking. I point blank refuse to get TikTok because I lose enough time to the other 2.

Edit: and from what I can tell TikTok is like crack.

Phone bad.

Amen

Mind blown. Will never think the same.

Social media is the dragon of chaos.

I deactivated my fb account a little while back after the Frances Haugen whistleblower case.

Of course I already knew social media with fb in particular helps the spread of misinformation which is undermining democracy, our intelligence and kinda tearing the world apart, but the fb papers also showed how fb to a very large extent knows all this and are happy with the revenue it generates. They know content on fb is used to supercharge conflicts like in Myanmar or violence against minorities. They know Instagram puts various negative pressures on young people that in turn increases the risk of things like suicide or eating disorders.

People engage more with content that make them angry or that they unhealthily obsess about, so using algorithms that serve people that kind of content is what fb (or meta) does.

Here, there was recently a study that showed teenagers are less happy now than they were 10 years ago. I'm sure social media plays a large part in that.

This this and this. Plus the Cambridge Analytica scandal is what convinced me to delete my Facebook around 2016 or 2017. The algorithm is very unethical, by my standards at least. Facebook continues to violate the trust of its users and they're, as you pointed out in different ways, definitely not an agent of benevolence of positivity in the world. It's about nothing but $$$.

It's absolutely ridiculous that so many young teenagers are all over these apps these days. I swear, parents these days gives their kids a cellphone before they've gone through puberty. Used responsibly, these platforms/apps like most things probably aren't all that bad. It all comes down to how they're used. But many young teenagers today definitely don't have a healthy relationship with these things.

Hey you know how you think a middle ground between socialism and capitalism is the best option? Here you can see that capitalism doesn't give a **** about your middle ground and middle ground capitalism just sweeps this **** under the rug so nobody cares and it can operate unimpeded.

Blaming it on parents is dumb as ****. People are how people are and unless you're proposing we use eugenics or social conditioning to fix how people interact with social media then blaming it on parents is actively ignoring the issue of the companies in charge of this media cause you don't want to deal with a much more basic problem of capitalism and it's unfettered control of our lives.

It's not that difficult to stop your children from getting on those apps or sites, within your household. A lot of parents just don't take those sort of precautions or measures.

Even if you deal with the issues you're talking about, parents are still the first line of defense for their children - in this case, parents would have to prevent their children from watching communist porn, where hammers and sickles are going up some bougie chick's ass.

Can't believe that **** legal https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/86...ality=lossless

Tbh I don't know exactly why social media and/or algorithms aren't more heavily regulated in terms of what they're allowed to do or not.

I thought maybe it's because many or most legislators are simply clueless about how to tackle the issue, but I don't know. It looks to me like it should be less about party politics and more about keeping society from going ape****.

At least it gives me a little comfort to know that facebook/meta stocks' value recently plunged. Seems user growth has stagnated for fb.

There's some saying or idiom about how long it takes regulators to keep up with technological change, but it's not coming to me right now. Recent examples being e-cigarettes, autonomous vehicles and of course, social media and data collection. I'd like to see federal regulation like the GDPR passed here in the United States - that'd be a great win for Biden's administration. Some states have enacted similar laws - like the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Isn't Facebook called Meta now? Kinda weird. I know they're doubling down on virtual reality and the metaverse - but I don't know how successful it will be. Good VR headsets are still not a cheap thing for average consumers, I'd say. But perhaps FB/Meta will change that.

Bro do you not remember people saying that parents should make sure kids don't watch too much tv or play too many video games? The simple truth is that the human race does not function in such a way as to limit exposure to media. It simply doesn't and no amount of handwringing will change that. This is simply how we function psychologically when presented with these stimuli.

If you want this to change you have to go up the ladder. Stop being the absolute embodiment of the concept "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism".

Because it makes money, smart guy. They care more about money than your wellbeing in case you hadn't noticed. American chattel slavery and the Belgian Congo should have been a couple hints.

But....but.....what about Amish people?!

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