Ban social media

Don’t forget the positives, like it can be easier to open up to people and be confident online. And it allows contact where it would be difficult or impossible otherwise. I find YT is mostly a positive place. You get the odd idiot but that happens in real life too.
It is easy to get triggered more easily online and you have to counter that yourself if you have that tendency. The support and opportunities for learning online are amazing. I’m not sure what actually counts as social media. YT? Facebook? I don’t use the latter. Tinder (mean tto say Twitter lol)? Never used it. Instagram? Same, never used it.
Depending on your age, you should also factor that people in general (and more online will be younger generation I guess) tend to be more easily triggered and angry for many reasons. Also, the general culture in the west and maybe wider, is one of a more selfish and narcissistic culture. Just try and avoid arguments unless you enjoy them. That’s the beauty of online, you are in total control.

 

ban INFJforum

 

I think there needs to be a distinction between the technology and the platform.

Instant global communication is incredible. Let's not ban that. However, I did prefer forums before thumbs and karma and all that dopamine addiction shit became unavoidable.

That's what I think is fuelling the worst behaviour on the mainstream platforms. It used to be that 'going viral' was only ever a terrible, humiliating thing that ruined your life and I would like to see a world where that is the case again.

 

With me? I didn't actually mean the last sentence but, yeah, the rest of it I broadly agree with.

On reflection, my own habits have changed massively. The first forum I posted on was the Atari forum for RCT3. I went there with a troubleshooting question and then had a mooch around and ended up becoming a regular in the chat section, contributing relatively little to the boards about the game.

Likewise, the MBTI boards here are fairly inactive but that's what brought many people here. I've never seen anyone make a blog their first post, it takes a little time.

The mainstream platforms are first and foremost like the personal homepages of yore. So I figure if you start from narcissism, albeit not pathological narcissism, what is most likely to grow from that?

As opposed to the older social media where a person's first encounter is often seeking help or advice.

 

Cancel culture is toxic.

 

welp.. so long everyone. Looks like we gotta tank the forums if we're banning social media

 

I'll go further. If we lost all internet services for a decade, the net result would probably be overwhelmingly good.

Instead of online shopping, local retailers would return; lazy four paragraph information would be less available, making whole book library visits the norm; people would have to interact in person; porn would be relegated to seedy bookstores in questionable areas; bullying of vulnerable people and minors couldn't happen as easily (offline bullying is harder to hide); illegal transactions would be far more difficult for criminals; etc.

 

Before online shopping we still had huge chain stores that people would shop from, mindlessly browsing through malls. Before lazy four paragraph information we had just less information...about anything, and porn has always been and still is popular and largely taboo.
No disagreement about the libraries and the in person interaction. The rest I don't see how the old version was that much better. Certainly doesn't warrant shutting down the internet.

 

Yes it’s like a series of porn-filled tubes! And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of porn, enormous amounts of porn!

 

Good thing you don't drive around Boston. We'd be cancelling private vehicles.
The middle finger is the morning salute to many. Don't get me started on horns.

I'm sure decades back people were saying the television was the source of all evil.
It's not about the tool, but rather what you do with it.

Yes, rules need to be made and adhered to. The US has a little problem called the first amendment that makes it hard to tell people not to express their feelings, or trollish nature. Still there are ways to protect.