> People do actually need social media, poor people and underprivileged communities especially.
Lower classes need time, money and knowledge. None of that comes out of social media, even LinkedIn is a big reach.
I'm blue collar myself by the way. The attention spans of my coworkers are shot and the younger they are the worse it gets. You're supposed to have a short term memory of about 5-7 items - today it's about 2-3. That's an immense cost.
If you talk of groups with intense focus like the forums peripheral to some activity - that is completely different to what social media is.
You know what blue collar workers need? Self Driving cars. Silicon Valley should concentrate on making that deliverable because it is itself distracted.
> This is such a blatantly obvious social control and fund raising scheme not meant to actually help anyone
Sure but often immoral motives have positive side affects.
If the Internet went down tomorrow for about a week, I wager the general sentiment would that of relief. It could be an annual holiday from the information stream.
It's like how when people stop watching television news they become less neurotic.
As the phrase attention economy implies, there are limits, and for many people the Internet has been a DOS on their brains.
> I'm confused how supposedly well educated thinking people can think it's a good idea in the benefit of it's victims.
Probably because we think the world's an ecology and not a us vs them dialectic.
Lower classes need time, money and knowledge. None of that comes out of social media, even LinkedIn is a big reach.
I'm blue collar myself by the way. The attention spans of my coworkers are shot and the younger they are the worse it gets. You're supposed to have a short term memory of about 5-7 items - today it's about 2-3. That's an immense cost.
If you talk of groups with intense focus like the forums peripheral to some activity - that is completely different to what social media is.
You know what blue collar workers need? Self Driving cars. Silicon Valley should concentrate on making that deliverable because it is itself distracted.
> This is such a blatantly obvious social control and fund raising scheme not meant to actually help anyone
Sure but often immoral motives have positive side affects.
If the Internet went down tomorrow for about a week, I wager the general sentiment would that of relief. It could be an annual holiday from the information stream.
It's like how when people stop watching television news they become less neurotic.
As the phrase attention economy implies, there are limits, and for many people the Internet has been a DOS on their brains.
> I'm confused how supposedly well educated thinking people can think it's a good idea in the benefit of it's victims.
Probably because we think the world's an ecology and not a us vs them dialectic.