That nobody cares about you unless you’re sharing memes and being silly. People have a very obscure way of handling any ounce of negativity and struggles one is going through. They’re there for your victories, but aren’t there for you, for your losses.
How Facebook discovered that outrage leads to the most engagement, so they weaponized their algorithms to amplify outrage, then Twitter and all the others did the same thing. Real shame, since they could have opted for trying to make the world a better place.
I find it so offensive to see people I know saying things online that they should not even be discussing in a public in-person setting.
You can’t unknow who are bigots, and what they think about the things you hold sacred.
That this is how it started. In 2004, when asked how he got the emails, addresses and pictures of so many people using Facebook Mark Zuckerburg replied
People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They “trust me”. Dumb fucks.
In retrospect, he’s right. Since then, billions of people have entrusted their information online to social media platforms time and time again. To Google. Facebook. Reddit. Twitter. Anywhere and everywhere. They haven’t learned a thing.
In the 90s as the internet was developing, we were warned to be cautious about who exactly are to know what about us as we surfed online. Like it was dumb to make your screen name, your real name or have parts of your real name. It was dumb to make your password resemble things about you or to make it easy to guess.
Nobody can say that we didn’t have the warnings. But by the turn of the 2000s and since, we just didn’t care. And it’s just funnier and funnier how so many people NOW start to care about privacy AFTER THE FACTS…
I’m not sure it was that we didn’t care as much as failing to do so locks you out of a lot of the internet.
