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I agree, but I’ve also found some useful stuff and the algorithms are learning that I like it and are giving me more of it. For example, I see more and more reels of DIY and home improvement stuff. It’s becoming increasingly useful the more my development job gets automated or outsourced overseas. I start next week shadowing a handyman who’s paying me to get on the job training. There’s incredible demand in the trades for jobs people like I’ve been for a quarter of a century won’t consider doing.
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@Condor 100% agree and can even understand why you feel responsible somehow - although the monster was created by businessmen, not by nerds in the end. But i am also somewhat optimistic the shit will end eventually. When energy prices raise on the one hand and poeple have less to spend on advertised shit at least one of the two income sources of social media will cease. Data collection though will be valuable still...
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@electrineer Yea but.. most people don't use their brain, honestly we are just a bunch of monkeys who got lucky.
People are stupid and lazy, we can be exploited and manipulated by this apps and majority of people simple won't give a single shit.
I'm surprised that we haven't nuked our self's into oblivion, as a human race we kinda tend to be self destructive most of the time.
Think of this next time you hear someone say "the future is bright" -
@DEVil666 Guess what happens when majority of population has attention span of a 5 year old child and lack the capacity to solve "complex" problems
Yeah.. thees "funny" dopamine driven reels are like heroin to addict. Have you ever tried telling an drug addict "Just put the needle down, go outside its a beautiful day." ?
This is the future we are approaching (at least I see it this way) -
I had an engineer girlfriend like that, the only way to get her off her phone was to keep having sex with her.
Even though she was good at her trade, she didn't like working, and preferred eating/sleeping/sex/phone to anything that might change the world, or earn her more money..
Last I heard she was unemployed, living back with her parents, lost her telephone support job for a non-IT company when the company went bust and hasn't done anything since.
Which is a great waste of talent. -
I'm reminded of a date I went on ( Both in our 50's.. ) and the woman kept fiddling with her phone.
She asked me if I thought she was being rude by doing so.
I replied "Yes!"
After that she put her phone back in her pocket and we had a lovely date without interruptions !
I often carry 3 phones with me these days, but only use them when I need to do something important with them.
One is for phone calls, one for web surfing, and one for classified work. -
@DEVil666
Recently I popped into some money saving groups on various social media platforms, and was really surprised how badly people figure out what is a way to save money.
For example, if you turn your cheap heating system off that you don't understand how to use, it will save you money..
If you then buy a second system, which costs twice as much to run, you are saving money !
No you aren't..
If you just listened to how to set the controls on your first heating system, it would cost you half the amount your new system is costing you !
People it appears like things that are easy to use, even if they cost more..
Like cars.
No body walks, people like super expensive cars they can't afford.
People like to live in cities, even if they can't afford to live there and end up homeless on the streets when they can't pay their bills.
The countryside is affordable, but not so much fun..
I did pick up some handy hints whilst I was there though. -
I guess it will end when those with poor genes end up not reproducing.
But maybe by the time that happens, there will be no more indoor plumbers and we will regress back to the stone age.
And so the cycle of civilisation will start all over again !
Though maybe this time, archaeologists will have a more fun time reading our past posts like this, 3,000 years into the future. :-)
Assuming they even can spot what a SSD storage device looks like and don't think its some kind of religious jewellery.. -
about the Why and the McD
some say it is because of 'reliable mediocrity'
No matter when and where you can always scroll through your feed and have the vaguely positive emotions you'd expected. Human interactions on the other hand can be far more rewarding, fun but also taxing have drama and so on.
So it becomes easier to just keep to that trusty averageness of scrolling through the phone
That leads to another thing: with all those options you kinda need a lot of inner strength while at the same time those social medias rob you of this strength.
I find those to views very helpful -
YEAH
The worst happens to little kids. Their parents spend ALL their attention on their phones and give their kids phones too...where they watch mind numbing stupid shit. One couple has a child whose some doesn't even really feel hunger...they just forcefeed him periodically.
He was born a normal child. May God guide them
I can't help but be disappointed in the direction that technology has directed us into, especially social media.
While I love my girlfriend, she more often than not spends her time scrolling away at the dumbest shit on Instagram, Facebook, .. reels. Reels everywhere. And she's not dumb, mind you. She's an engineer just as much as you (presumably) and I are. Just in a different field.
When looking into it online and stumbling upon more than one study, I learned about the term it had been coined.. technoference. That's the constant interruption of social media into our day-to-day lives, and the dopamine kick it gives -- more so than IRL peers do. Why that is, being the digital equivalent to McDonald's, that's beyond me. But somehow it seems to be better, all while the content isn't even useful. It doesn't allow you to learn anything, to gain insights, or to explore things that could serve you in the real world. Cat videos and random shit that's somehow.. funny? Having pretty much completely disconnected from social media years ago, I seriously fail to see how.
Maybe us nerds in the 90's and early 2000's telling everyone else how we'd change the world and prove everyone who called us freaks wrong, disenchanted as we were (and probably still are), were the catalyst for this social disaster. We had the cognitive skills to do it, but not the social equivalent. I feel guilty... Even though I've always been part of a big tech resistance in some capacity, I still feel guilty. Because I'm one of those people with the skills of those who created this trash fire of a societal status quo. Everyone glued to their screens, 95% of the time not for work. Not even to aid one's ability to function in the real world. Just to combat boredom. All day, for many hours on end.
Where is it going to end? When will people realize the dystopia we got ourselves into? Will anyone but a few fight it? Would those who don't fight it even care?
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