Interesting piece. Here is my experience with Facebook. On the positive side, I connected with friends and family. I got involved with local community discussions. I joined a couple of pages devoted to growing food - my favorite subject. All healthy engagements. But after a while I also got sucked into political combat. I was spending too much time arguing with the equivalent intelligence of an asphalt parking lot. I actually argued with a guy who thought Ivermectin (animal dewormer) would cure Covid.
At some point I evaluated the value of my time. 24 hours. What am I going to do with it?
And I had discovered Substack via Heather Cox Richardson. That led me to Hubbell, Craven, Vance, Rosenberg, Hartmann, Reich, Rather and you. There are others. I said good bye to FB. I have not missed it.
The damage done to society, our nation, our social norms and our election process by FB is unforegivable. Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg. You are a narcissistic mad scientist from the movie we never wanted to be real. You actually see yourself as some sort of hero. But you are only slightly better than Elon Musk. The two of you reinvented the world and made it a mess without morals. Hope you both find yourselves on a one way Spacex trip to Mars.
That’s a very interesting final paragraph, something I had t thought of. An excellent conclusion to an interesting article.
I am inundated with scam attempts - phone, text and computer. (I’m not on Facebook though). There are times when I pass them by and just kind of wave in recognition. There are other times when they infuriate me on a meta scale. For one, they pollute the Internet and I find that depressing. For another, any bandwidth of mine they occupy annoys me. Every day I get a call from a Chinese scam. I never answer, but it’s an interruption. And then I have to deal with the inevitable message.
It’s such an uncivilized turn in society, perfectly aligned with the drain we are spinning down. And I heard in passing lately that the advice from experts is to just get used to them aka “We’ve lost”.
We are brittle. And the Internet era opened with such promise, which I fully believed.
I have many filters in place in my life that prevent the vast majority of scams from even penetrating. Unless I want them too, as in the above article. Critical thinking skills and the development of various reality filtration systems to protect individual and group mental health should be a much, much higher social priority.
Interesting piece. Here is my experience with Facebook. On the positive side, I connected with friends and family. I got involved with local community discussions. I joined a couple of pages devoted to growing food - my favorite subject. All healthy engagements. But after a while I also got sucked into political combat. I was spending too much time arguing with the equivalent intelligence of an asphalt parking lot. I actually argued with a guy who thought Ivermectin (animal dewormer) would cure Covid.
At some point I evaluated the value of my time. 24 hours. What am I going to do with it?
And I had discovered Substack via Heather Cox Richardson. That led me to Hubbell, Craven, Vance, Rosenberg, Hartmann, Reich, Rather and you. There are others. I said good bye to FB. I have not missed it.
The damage done to society, our nation, our social norms and our election process by FB is unforegivable. Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg. You are a narcissistic mad scientist from the movie we never wanted to be real. You actually see yourself as some sort of hero. But you are only slightly better than Elon Musk. The two of you reinvented the world and made it a mess without morals. Hope you both find yourselves on a one way Spacex trip to Mars.
The billionaire class, as a whole, is pretty evil.
That’s a very interesting final paragraph, something I had t thought of. An excellent conclusion to an interesting article.
I am inundated with scam attempts - phone, text and computer. (I’m not on Facebook though). There are times when I pass them by and just kind of wave in recognition. There are other times when they infuriate me on a meta scale. For one, they pollute the Internet and I find that depressing. For another, any bandwidth of mine they occupy annoys me. Every day I get a call from a Chinese scam. I never answer, but it’s an interruption. And then I have to deal with the inevitable message.
It’s such an uncivilized turn in society, perfectly aligned with the drain we are spinning down. And I heard in passing lately that the advice from experts is to just get used to them aka “We’ve lost”.
We are brittle. And the Internet era opened with such promise, which I fully believed.
I have many filters in place in my life that prevent the vast majority of scams from even penetrating. Unless I want them too, as in the above article. Critical thinking skills and the development of various reality filtration systems to protect individual and group mental health should be a much, much higher social priority.