Primarily facebook and twitter. I don't get on twitter but I do get on fb and it seems more often then not it's just people arguing.
Also, while I think it's probably good everyone has a voice these days, the idiots seem to get heard the loudest.
And I also think social media is making harder to tell what is fact anymore.
I remember before social media consumed everyone and it seemed like people were happier.
Facebook is fine to a point but my block list has grown a lot this year. I tried getting on Twitter but I deleted my account when the riots started happening around memorial day. Seeing the violence as it happened made me feel pretty disgusted.
shareI've never been all that big into it. I like to use Facebook to see how people are doing from like 10 years ago, but other than that I hardly use it. I still don't really understand Twitter or Instagram really, unless it's a business.
shareYou’re catching up. This is a the only social media I’ve ever used. I think social media is really watering people down. Instead of thinking for themselves, they let others think for them. Then all they have to do is pick a side. Dumbed down conformity at its finest.
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share“This is a the only social media I’ve ever used”
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EASY ANSWER...YES...100%...MY WIFE IS A LOST CAUSE...MY DAUGHTER AND I SPEND HOURS DISCUSSING THE TOPIC AND TRYING TO AVOID THE SCROLL HOLE.
shareI can see using Facebook to post photos for friends and family - especially if people do not live close together; however, I have family members who post messages to their spouses, and parents, (whom they see almost daily.)
I do have a Facebook account, but I never post anything about myself on it.
I've never understood that. Why wouldn't they just email each other pics, why do they need the whole world to see their business?
shareSame! That would make me so uncomfortable.
shareI joined FB over 10 years ago and ended up closing my account as people at work started to friend me and I realized even if I wanted to I would never be able to post anything of value on it.
shareI’m way too private for all that. I also see nothing desirable in having “friends” that I don’t know, or that I could give 0 fucks about. The whole concept of FB is odd to me.
shareI use it everyday. My people are scattered across the country. Easy way to keep in touch.
shareEven forums like this one tend to be poorly run and lots of arguments/trolling happens. If you happen to be someone who is isolated and is trying to be social to even a limited degree like using a forum than I can see how it could make them become even more depressed when strangers start attacking them.
share✅...though its not as bad as it was at the end there at IMDb...yet...
shareIMDB was a disgrace. I can see why they shutdown the forums, so many obvious trolls but they were unwilling to appoint proper mods, or enough of them. Not that Mods always help, I have been on forums where the Mods are the ones causing the problems!
IMDBV2 forum is shocking too actually. Troll run.
It’s just business, and I have nothing against Amazon even though it did have a hand in shutting down one of my businesses, but shutting down the message board at IMDb was not cool....yeah, it was a cesspool at the end there, but I ignored most of the miscreants and trolls....But it was within their options to do so....it was just business (and other factors too lame to list), and I get that...I don’t consider myself the traditional businessman, but I get how business works....
But yeah, Artisan, I agree for the most part, the end at IMDb was not its finest hour....
IMDb claimed it shut down the message boards because of trolling. I never believed that, and have heard other posters hypothesize that Amazon didn't like users' negative reviews of movies because it affected DVD/Blu-ray sales.
I don't believe for one minute that a billion-dollar corporation like Amazon couldn't afford to hire a few moderators to keep the trolls in check, if that truly was the problem.
Yep, that was one factor “too lame to list”....but you said it, thanks ....
shareI think the studios and actors didn't like seeing their names and movies get slammed too. They were probably also pissed at the amount of political debates that raged on just about every film and tv show board lol. I guess if it were my business I would not take too kindly to some idiot complaining about the lack of Koreans in an old Western etc
shareShort answer is no, it doesn't do more harm than good. I'm so glad we have technology and communication. Is there abuse by trolls? Definitely. Does that mean we should get rid of technology? I'll let you decide.
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