Social media?

[dddaver]

A couple weeks ago I saw a stand-up comedian say that the term “Social Media” is actually anti-social. That has been rattling around in my melon a lot lately. He really has a point.

On Facebook people are forever just posting innocuous crap you couldn’t care less about or then putting junk on their walls that represents just who they want to be, not who they really are.

On Twitter you are limited to 140 characters so you are often just limited to one comment, no matter your real thoughts that usually take a few more than just 140 to express. That’s not to mention that following shit. Why can’t people just live their own lives and who cares what some attention whore is doing?

A lot of people Photo-shop their Instagrams before sending them. Kinda defeats the purpose. And that doesn’t even address that hedonistic, attention seeking, ego maniacal, selfie craze either.


You hear a lot about meet ups from dating sites. Then the person not looking at all like the pic they posted. That has happened to me. Twice. Screw that shit. And profiles are just what that person wants themselves to be. Almost all of them have agendas of what they think is acceptable, not how people really are. The real person is completely missed. What happened to that whole “opposites attract” anyway?


We have all seen those pictures of kids sitting around a table at some restaurant but they all are looking down at their phones and not talking to each other. That’s really very true. I’ve seen similar things, a lot. Or they text to the person sitting right across from them. The art of conversation is dieing.


So, I agree with that comedian. I think that term “Social Media” is mostly actually the exact opposite. It's ANTI-social. And just like as was the situation my man George talked about, some of the best humor in life is found in reality.

So, whatch ya’ll think about all that shite? My thinking?, "Some peoples jus be CRAZY".

 

[vostok]

Social Media, a term used by the 'press' to describe in fact, news made for and used ...by the people, for the people, and not aimed or directed at current 'press' media, as by far the majority of people are so pissed off, by what is known as the 'press' media in the USA, that shit that goes as 'news' in the USA, and Europe, and the rest of the world, that shit that is squeaked out by dumbass news editors, who don't give a shit about you, them or us, they who follow the government down any bull shit road, twisting and turning any news article to there own wants and desires.

The peeps have had enough, so (inadvertently) have made there own network, Facebook / Twitter, etc etc, just as we have here, but these 'press' filth in turn now steal there self serving crap, of off the peoples network, daily, ...........just watch your nightly tv news, see how long you last?
Still the news tycoons attempt to charge pay per view even on their websites, they are so fucking greedy, its well worth these news tycoons to be actively involved in creating news, pick a side Murdoch, you win every time.

Its here at ICMAG: is where I get my news, its well worth it too, every 'news' article I post here I read about 20 plus in return, so post ya news and fuck the tycoons

 

[_tessarecting]

Social media...a friendly user interface that sells your data to the highest bidder every month, take advantage of you, is used against you, with virtually no oversight because no one understands it... what a joke

 

[GuerrillaRed]

Meh... it has its uses, I'm not going to be edgy and talk down on it.

In my personal life I deleted everything except Twitter because I found being too connected to other people to be depressing. Twitter was the most pointless thing ever until I discovered its awesome for keeping up to date on day trading and investment news.

I love forums like these though as its where I learn the most about the things I'm interested in.

 

[_tessarecting]

There is nothing edgy about realizing what a black hole one way street facade social media is.

It has nothing to do with friends and family and has everything to do with money and power and they give you none of it. By using it you are a cog in an experiment and everything you do is logged and analyzed by algorithms and analysts. General.populous.apathy is the fuel this thing feeds on and has grown into a monster that shits out small matrices of vocabularies of reverse meanings so people don't even know what things really are anymore.

It's a trap and they've got you so good you can hardly even tell sucked in...life sifted through a net...

 

[dddaver]

BTW, I never joined any of it, no fuckbook, no shitter...I mean twitter (I'll leave tweeting to the birds). Tinder seems preety fucking immoral and shallow to me too. So, none of it.

I'm not normally a joiner, but I did 20 in the Air Farts, but that was more for my kids security, or because I was brain-washed into thinking I was protecting liberty. Not so much for me personally. I liked my job but I hated the military.

I have found the majority of the news anymore completely untrust-worthy, are just voices for the elite 1%, and out and out lie. Look at what that douche Brian Williams did, not just one lie, and least 10 other bald-faced lies.

But in that first post I was talking more about these little aps people think connect them. They DO NOT. They draw people further into their own shells.

I ain't necsssarily hating on them. Just hate how they want people to see them as. I just think people need to see what they really are so they can exploit them instead of them exploiting you.

 

[mr.brunch]

Yeah not for me. I know some people can't live without Facebook etc. but I never felt the need.

 

[Dready_jake]

Meh... it has its uses, I'm not going to be edgy and talk down on it.

In my personal life I deleted everything except Twitter because I found being too connected to other people to be depressing. Twitter was the most pointless thing ever until I discovered its awesome for keeping up to date on day trading and investment news.

I love forums like these though as its where I learn the most about the things I'm interested in.

What he's saying is: were you really TOO connected or just depressed because the people you used to KNOW pesronally have now become a screen with a picture? I have often thought the same thing and since don't have any social media except this site. If you want to talk to me , find or call my ass! My number hasn't changed in like 8 Years lol. Dont message me on a website. Lol
Except you guys obviously.. You can message me lol

 

[floralheart]

...what the problem is?

 

[vostok]

I'll stand by my post above, but it does remind me of....

You have 0 Friends ...​

plot: Kyle, Cartman and Kenny surprise Stan by creating a Facebook account for him. Stan protests, but is quickly pressured by family and friends to add them as friends. To his annoyance and frustration, Stan finds people such as Randy, his grandmother and even Wendy confronting him over his supposed disregard for them and judging his real-world friendship solely by his Facebook configuration. Meanwhile, Kyle adds shy nerdy student Kip Drordy to his thriving friends list out of pity. Kyle's number of Facebook friends rapidly declines when he does this, in part due to a Mad Friends podcast he finds Cartman has set up in which he berates Kyle for choosing a loser as a friend and asserts nobody will want to hang out with Kyle. Kyle understands this, but, on principle and out of pity, cannot bring himself to delete Kip to please others. Desperate to stem the loss of friends, he asks Cartman for advice. Cartman introduces Kyle to Chatroulette as a way to make new friends, which fails as most of the people on the site are either jacking off or showing their genitals, until Cartman finally finds another Jewish kid named Isiah, who agrees to be Kyle's friend, much to Kyle's delight.

Meanwhile, Stan now has 845,323 friends (almost all of whom he hardly knows or does not know) on his account and has finally decided to delete it, only to find that Facebook refuses to allow him to. Instead of deleting his account, Stan is forcibly transported by the software into the virtual world of Facebook, where he meets "profiles" of everyone he knows who communicate in Facebook lingo, and is forced to engage in Facebook activities such as Yahtzee. Unexpectedly winning on the first roll, Stan escapes and finds his way to Kyle's Farm Town farm, blaming Kyle for getting him "sucked into Facebook" in the first place. Stan orders Kyle to check out his profile status and Kyle finds out that Stan is supposedly hosting a party elsewhere in Facebook at Café World. Kyle makes it to Stan's party, only to find that Isiah has refused to be his friend because of Kip. Desperate to retain some friends, Kyle finally deletes Kip, leaving him with no friends. Kip, too, is disheartened to find his friend has abandoned him.

At the party, Stan encounters his online profile, which has the form of a huge monstrous version of himself. It challenges him to a game of Yahtzee and Stan wins, again on the first roll, causing the profile to be finally deleted. The victory returns Stan to the real world once more. He now has no Facebook friends, and Randy, upon realizing that Stan is no longer his friend, asks Stan why he deleted him. Stan explains what just happened to him and that he has "sent all his friends somewhere else". Back at Kip's house, Kip is still depressed about Kyle deleting him as a friend, but is then overjoyed when all 845,323 friends Stan had prior to deletion are suddenly transferred to his account as friends.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Have_0_Friends

ps if your life is like this ....then its time for help ...lol

 

[floralheart]

the first girl I ever had sex with looked me up after 20 years... she interrogated me for an hour about married, kids, where I lived... creeped all my posts... then blocked me.

my profile says i'm married and live in idaho, so i wasn't so easy to find

 

[LEF]

Social media
Social chlamydia

 

[theHIGHlander]

Minefild...never have and never will join any of them....why?..I don't see the point,,pick up the fucking phone or go around to your buddy'...it won't be long until everyone turn into lemons sitting starting at your phones on facewank/bicker....fucking mone mone mone but hay look what am having for dinner..............fuck off

Keep it green
Highlander

 

[Seaf0ur]

just look at that social interaction...

 

[HL45]

I tell my friends that if you spend one hour on facebook everyday that its 15 days a year you are on facebook.

If you spend two hours a day its a whole month per a year that you are on face book.

If you sleep 8 hours a day that means 4 months a year or one third of the year is for sleep...

Eating, bathing, brushing, teeth, they all have to equal at least a month if not more.

So that means if you spend two hours a day on face book you only have half the year to work and make a living and enjoy yourself.

I spend time here on IC but I also have made a living from knowledge I have gained and shared on the internet.

What I really notice is people walking about staring at their phones looking down. Seemingly disconnected from their surroundings. Its sad.

 

[HL45]

HAHA seafour you beat me to it! but its completely true!

 

[mr.brunch]

Icmag don't watch what you look at or post, then direct ads at you....

 

[dddaver]

I was on Yahoo mail one day talking to one daughter about my other daughter's crappy job. Then logged out. When a person logs out of Yahoo mail it automatically redirects them to their main page. Then the first story, with a picture too, is "Ten of the Best Jobs Without Getting a College Degree". I clicked on the finance section of Yahoo, where the story was supposed to originate. But it was not even one of the stories on that page. That scared the crap out of me realizing they were reading my mail and using it so fast like that. All by software apparently. I had just typed that. So I just shut everything off and went and did something else.

What bothers me most about that shit is that then these companies then sell that info. Not just about me, but about my daughter too. Google mail does the very same thing, and "tailors" your search results from things you have written in Gmail. But the difference with them is they don't sell it, but keep it all for their own use.

So it's not just the NSA spying on citizens, it's most of those big internet companies too. So every time you turn on your computer, you are just a comodity? ...Wait...That just ain't right.

BTW, my spell-check ain't working here. Sorry about that.

 

[shithawk420]

I live in a REALLY small town.most of the people are assholes.so I just pretend to be on my phone when I'm walking so I don't have to look at them.but holy shit!seeing eye people!lol!yeah I'd say we are fucked!

 

[Lester Beans]

If I havnt seen you in 20 years, if you do know what's new with me or you can't find me...

Its because I don't wanna fucking see you, talk to you, fucking hear about jack shit. Icmag is a resource, not social media as some think.

I am building a 10' wall around my property, yeah I ain't a facefuck kinda guy..