• jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    ARE WE LEARNING HOW “SOCIAL MEDIA” WORKS YET HUMANITY?

    Seriously. How many more fucking times do we need to go around this goddamn merry go round until we just start calling each other on the phone and meeting face to face again. You know, where the only enshittification is the one you bring with you. It’s fucking boring me now, how many of these stupid ass things I didn’t join because I’ve already, apparently, gotten the memo and how, inevitably, something like this happens, and everyone acts surprised and disappointed , as though inevitability was a concept they felt they’d been given a sabbatical from or something.

    This. Shit. Ain’t. Free. There is an inherent cost, an “effort” required to communicate with others. You pay it with money, time or privacy. The overwhelming choice lately has been “privacy”, but it’s obviously something that not everyone is comfortable with, because we didn’t have the term “enshittification” before we started this flavor of our collective idiocy.

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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      22 hours ago

      Can I subscribe to your social media accounts? I would like to follow your opinions.

      Nah, for real though, I’m so glad my best friend is still fairly analog and we use the phone for what it is (we just call each other when we want to meet up).

      Lemmy is the last of social media that I use and I regularly take breaks from it because the echo chamber is very apparent and not something I wish to be consumed by.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      ARE WE LEARNING HOW “SOCIAL MEDIA” WORKS YET HUMANITY?

      Apparently not, because people keep feeling surprised and offended when the Networking Effect happens.

      Seriously. How many more fucking times do we need to go around this goddamn merry go round until we just start calling each other on the phone and meeting face to face again

      Idk, when are we going to get low-cost public transit and VoIP that’s not like talking over two tin cans connected with string?