Has social media destroyed the way how we view people on an empathetic level? -

[albert chan]

I look at the lolcows that are seen as exceptional or just parodies of their “true” selves when I view their social media accounts. I don’t use Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram, but I do wonder how bad things have to get until social media becomes completely abolished and viewed in the future as the real threat to mankind.

 

[and 1 other]

What are you even trying to say?

 

[The Last Stand]

I think people think "social media" is basically sharing every minutiae detail in their everyday lives. Especially with smartphones, everybody with social media has a GPS, a camera, a consistent connection to the Internet.

The idea of always being connected through a platform has diminished the requirement of having more personalized interactions. If you don't have social media or use it infrequently, you're basically cut off from the rest of society. Who knows what your high school friend is up to now? He doesn't have a Facebook; you can't just search his name.

Internet back then in the 2000s encouraged anonymity. Well, Internet was a luxury back then. More or less used as another gateway or supplementary tool for your lives. The computer was the only way to access the Internet, basically in a home or library. One place. Now, if you have a smartphone and data, you're always connected.

 

[Icasaracht]

Stop confusing the symptom with the disease. Degeneracy and mental abnormalities were with humanity since before Jesus took one for the team. All social media does is exacerbate the tard-cum for our collective amusement.

 

[Grinrow]

Yeah social media makes me wanna neck myself but it shouldn't be abolished or considered a threat to mankind.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

Nah, I'm just as much of a prick in my daily life as I am online.

 

[The Pink Panther]

It's a Lord of the Flies scenario. You may think people are civilized, but put them in front of a screen of some sort and they become savage beings.

Hell. Think of it like this. I like this site, as does many, but really what good are we doing for society? All we do is make fun of people, yeah they deserve it 99.99% of the time, but what the hell really are we?

 

[Grinrow]

It's a Lord of the Flies scenario. You may think people are civilized, but put them in front of a screen of some sort and they become savage beings.

Hell. Think of it like this. I like this site, as does many, but really what good are we doing for society? All we do is make fun of people, yeah they deserve it 99.99% of the time, but what the hell really are we?

Tbh Kiwifarms has done more good for society than most websites. Like exposing alot of dogfuckers and getting pedophiles arrested so that counts for something. But we're still all complete assholes and thats what makes the farms so fun to be on.

 

[DumbDude42]

Hell. Think of it like this. I like this site, as does many, but really what good are we doing for society? All we do is make fun of people, yeah they deserve it 99.99% of the time, but what the hell really are we?

we're just the internet equivalent of nelson muntz going "ha ha!" in the simpsons

 

[TFT-A9]

People have always been like this, but before social media and the formation of little echochambers of like-minded idiots the environment wasn't really favorable for letting one's asshole-flag fly freely in the wind, so to speak. Now you can go online and be nearly guaranteed to find someone just as insufferable and assheaded as yourself, and form a little circlejerk with all your fellow flag-fliers where you convince yourselves that you're all fine and everyone else are assholes instead of biting back on your bullshit a bit and going along to get along.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Tbh Kiwifarms has done more good for society than most websites. Like exposing alot of dogfuckers and getting pedophiles arrested so that counts for something. But we're still all complete assholes and thats what makes the farms so fun to be on.

It's also a pretty good site to collect information. With modern day journalism on hard topics being at best non existent and at worst downright manipulative, you learn more what happens here than on any other source.

 

[Next Task]

People have always been like this, but before social media and the formation of little echochambers of like-minded idiots the environment wasn't really favorable for letting one's asshole-flag fly freely in the wind, so to speak.

This is part of it. Before, if you - I dunno, got off on watching women squash bugs with their feet, you pretty much had to keep it to yourself/the hookers you hired to do it. Nowadays, you can not only easily find all the material you could want, but also a group of like-minded people you can share your fetish with. And as we've seen time and time again, when people with bad ideas gather in a place and are allowed to fester, they reinforce their shared delusions/perversions and get even more fixated on the thing they have in common. eg Furries, troons, tankies, nationalists, and so on.

But I also think the current social media setups, with incredibly powerful corporations controlling what are essentially public, albeit virtual, spaces, isn't particularly good for the people who have become the product being sold. I think social media promotes narcissism and blunts empathy, both net negatives for social cohesion and the ability for people to not be complete monsters to strangers, seeing as there's a vast difference between what most people would say out loud vs. what they're willing to say online.

I flip-flop on whether the benefits of social media and the internet outweigh the costs - because there are definitely benefits. But the Farms aren't really a place where we spend time with people who are using social media wisely, positively or kindly, and I'm sure that's influencing my perception. Much as I enjoy making fun, I think there are a few lolcows that have negatively affected my view of humanity as a whole, and I'd probably be better off if I didn't even know they existed.

 

[W00K #17]

Facebook groups have destroyed the fishing at some of my favored lakes. Somebody posts a picture of a limit of walleyes, and next thing you know you're sharing your spot with 30 other boats when the weekend before there were only one or two others.

I'm a nice guy so sometimes I'll give advice, but people get so greedy with what they expect from you. I try to be honest but reasonably vague and say oh yeah, the small mouths are biting near rocky banks on the river, and people act like they want you to drop a pin on the exact spot on google maps and send it to them. Like no, you have to do a LITTLE bit of the work yourself dude, showing people fishing spots isnt my job, they have paid guides for that.