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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)

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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem to think that social media is about giving people a voice. It isn't. Most social media is set up either to harvest users personal data to sell for profit or to sell products to and push ideas on users. In most cases, both. It has become the primary method of distributing propaganda and influencing public opinion generally.

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[–] Meowoem 0 points 1 year ago

you're basically Alex Jones with that level of paranoid delusion, they're just a service that exists not a communist plot to turn frogs gay.

And yes of course people attempt to control narratives on social media, you think it was better when Murdoch could just print anything he liked? and if even if you could prove it's bullshit the only thing you could do was moan about it to some dunks down the pub.

Social media isn't perfect but your characterisation of it is absurd and based on nothing but kneejerk hatred of change