Do you believe that social media needs to be regulated more tightly?

[Scustin Bieburr]

Simple proposition.

I think the average person has become more stupid, rude, and overall worse because social media rewards whatever behavior increases engagement with the platform. Someone writing a thoughtful comment may get noticed and liked, but someone writing a stupid comment will also get noticed(but for the wrong reasons) people's reactions to that comment increases engagement which gives an incentive for the commenter to double down on their stupidity since they're receiving both validation in the form of likes and responses.

I think social media has become like a form of the matrix. People choose to live in an alternate reality where the earth is flat, people's beliefs before the existence of the scientific method and germ theory are to be taken more seriously, and various convicted criminals and pedophiles are to be trusted to lead a country over people with experience. They choose to live in a reality where most women look like models, and most men earn an absurd amount of money and are built like D1 athletes.

Then when they unplug and have to actually interact with people in the real world, there's a kind of dissonance and yearning for the fakeness.

 

[Mr. Togo]

No, let them be stupid and dumb

Sick of people believing everybody can be saved.

 

[Elim Garak]

Nope

 

[badhat]

This would have needed to be implemented over a decade ago, no point now.

 

[MajesticLion]

Natural progression.

 

[Nabs]

I wish. The algorithm has far too strong a hold on people, and the recent election has proven how impactful it can be when used for political gain. I'm afraid to see what happens in the future when AI matures and can be used to completely alter someone's perspective on reality.

I'm not sure what you can do now, but I wish I could snap my fingers and fix things.

 

[Spiider]

Just get rid of all of it

 

[King Poetic]

I think these motherfukkers need a dose of reality

 

[Loose]

Needs to be eliminated i see why China regulates it to a certain extent

 

[mag357]

Definitely needs to be at least censored.
All the other stuff you are talking about, NO.
U need people with different ways of thinking sharing their ideas.
Everything is a conspiracy theory until it's not and it becomes accepted as fact.

But theres too much porn and negativity on the internet.
And nobody seems to care even tho their lil ass kids have access to the internet.
Society is garbage because ur kids have grown up watching big booty Brazilian gangbang 4, and watching people get hit by trains before the age of 10

 

[AngryBaby]

Simple proposition.

I think the average person has become more stupid, rude, and overall worse because social media rewards whatever behavior increases engagement with the platform. Someone writing a thoughtful comment may get noticed and liked, but someone writing a stupid comment will also get noticed(but for the wrong reasons) people's reactions to that comment increases engagement which gives an incentive for the commenter to double down on their stupidity since they're receiving both validation in the form of likes and responses.

I think social media has become like a form of the matrix. People choose to live in an alternate reality where the earth is flat, people's beliefs before the existence of the scientific method and germ theory are to be taken more seriously, and various convicted criminals and pedophiles are to be trusted to lead a country over people with experience. They choose to live in a reality where most women look like models, and most men earn an absurd amount of money and are built like D1 athletes.

Then when they unplug and have to actually interact with people in the real world, there's a kind of dissonance and yearning for the fakeness.

Yeah, social media got trump elected. Twice. This wouldn't have happened pre-social media era.

 

[Arcavian]

No.

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

Yeah, social media got trump elected. Twice. This wouldn't have happened pre-social media era.

60 years ago we didn't even have rights in this country.

Trump was getting elected either way

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

Stupid people have existed since the beginning of time. It's a cop-out to blame social media for everything. Asking for social media to be "regulated" is extremely dangerous because you know they're just going to censor anything useful, educational or pro-black

 

[Mass]

My answer is yes but it won't work because

Stupid people have existed since the beginning of time. It's a cop-out to blame social media for everything. Asking for social media to be "regulated" is extremely dangerous because you know they're just going to censor anything useful, educational or pro-black

And that's pretty much it. Nothing we can do. If someone has a solution I'd be all ears