Internet made y'all way too comfortable.
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The issue with modern day hate and non-consequential ignorance
"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." – Mike Tyson
Do you ever feel like people these days are so hateful towards others, so disrespectful and so ignorant? I certainly feel that every day. In this post I want to talk about my opinions and why I think this happens
Social media
Social media is was a great tool. People used to share their ideas, thoughts, arts and many things. It was fun, amusant and joyful in a way that made us feel connected to each other. Now, wherever you look in social media, you see hate and disrespect, constant comparison hoping that someone might feel better by downsizing another. This constant toxic place is effecting our daily lives too. Because more and more people do this, and they feel comfortable doing it at real life. Because on the internet, there is no real consequence. What can they do? Ignore you? Block you? Ah, you didn't wanted to talk with them anyways.
This point of view made building up strong communications and relationship skills way harder, and some people think that this skills are straight up useless this day. I repeat, the skills we depend on to thrive as a person & community is useless to some people.
Here is a verbatim from The Collegio:
While I agree with free speech, bullying, blatant hate speech or taking advantage of someone should not be tolerated, or else social media becomes a cesspool of individuals whose only intention is to spread hate upon others. – Mitch Adams
Social media depends on hate.
Current day social media companies like Meta, Twitter (I'm not calling it a letter, and I am not sorry), and any other ones like Google for example clearly don't care about contents on those platforms being truthful or whatever. They want their users to engage on their platforms as much as possible.
But, some types of content gets much higher engagement than others, such as hateful, disrespectful and untruthful types of content. These makes users rage, and thus make them engage with content via comments, dislikes or whatever the heck is available for them at the moment. We used to call, and I believe we still are calling these rage bait.
Because of this system, social media algorithms show you the most "engaging" content possible. Remember that an algorithm doesn't have a mind. It just tries to do things as efficiently as possible. So that engaging content in this case is rage bait.
Ignorant leading ignorant, then the children.
A lot of social media content these days are in between the lines of "school is useless" and "people getting education are stupid.", usually they are selling a course and any average thinking people with a brain laughs at the top of their lungs and scrolls but some people don't - they take them seriously.
So, we have uneducated people, telling other people to not get an education. But do you know which portion of the world this effects? The children! Because they literally think "Oh, they are so cool, and money is the only way to know a persons worth!!" so, yeah, I think you can fill the blanks and how this ends up.
Consequence of actions does not exist on the internet.
As I mentioned above, you can literally get away with anything on social media. Look, I am all about free speech, but the heck man? Free speech have to have consequences and you should be held accountable about what you've said on the internet. This makes people comfortable in their ignorance, and selfishness.
The popularity of ignorance
Right now, %54 percent of US adults are below 6th grade literacy1, 6th grade…
That means you can maybe read Harry Potter's 1st book, as an adult. And literacy rates are a direct way to see if your people can express their thoughts or have intelligence. A person can't learn or develop if they can't read, damn it!
Anyhow, thus, illiterate people can believe lies and have to believe what is being told to them since they can't understand the real explanation, hence they are easier to manipulate in almost every way; in politics, about big issues, about their own religion, and so on and so forth.
And I want you to remind that hate comes from ignorance. Can you ever remember yourself defending a topic so basic that even a 6th grader could understand to a 40 year old person, and they insist on not understanding? Yeah, that is because they actually can't.
I would highly suggest you to read Social Media Platforms and the Upside of Ignorance by CIGI, because I am out of my words.
Closing and thanks
Once again, I want to tank you for listening to me yap about things that you don't particularly care about. Anyways, I hope that you have a great day and I would like to see you again.
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