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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: EastBayRay] 1
#23959743 - 12/27/16 03:22 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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EastBayRay said: Bad.
Posting on social media = willfully submitting aspects of your life to the police state which is data mined and scrutinized in real time or later on down the road in the future.
It also breeds narcissism and 'group think mentality' as well as giving away free speech (in the case of Facebook and Twitter, they actively skew their 'news' to be in favor of the establishment's press and delete and ban users which spread messages which challenge their agenda). It could be argued that doing so is a form of implementing propaganda and brainwashing people.
Unfortunately, voluntarily offering up, among other things, your personal information as well as your face (facial recognition), where you check in and out of, your mac and IP addresses, who you associate with and your interests, has become socially acceptable. Just hand over your information for entertainment. All of this information is being added to a database for Data Science & Predictive analytics. Very soon, if not already, they will know everything about your personality, interests, political affiliations, who you associate with, and have at a minimum, your facial recognition, scans of your irises, fingerprints, etc. so that you can be picked out of a crowd, from among other technologies, your face, the devices you carry, and the technology is here to predict your future thoughts or actions based on all the personal information you have volunteered to social media and your internet searches. Hell, simply using Siri or similar apps steals your voiceprint, links it to your identity, and the app hands it over or sells it to whoever they want.
Social media is bad.
So the government can't do anything right but are going to be able to predict my thoughts? Information is all going a database no one will ever look at. The worst that is going to happen with all this info is you will get better targeted advertisements in your sidebar. Been hearing about how "they" are building a database since the dawn of the internet, yet nothing ever happens. Every nation on earth has NSA like spy agencies keeping info, but nothing ever happens with it. So what if they know who i called? It will never effect my life in any way. It's like saying all the security cameras are big brother, no one watches that footage. I have 4 cameras running around the perimeter here and have actually looked at the footage twice in 5 years. But how many times have I heard hysteria these cams were going to take everyone's freedom away? Catch criminals is what they do. The NSA database is for catching catching threats to national security. While you should care what info they have and how they use it, I havent seen any proof they use it for anything other than trying to catch terrorists.
I was watching the X Files the other night and I realized that is where many attitudes like yours started. Like the G men show up and erase all evidence and have it all under perfect control and they handle it all perfectly. They have conspiracies behind the conspiracies and predicted everything. What really happens, in the real world, is the government/police fuck everything up. If they really had all these capabilities there should be no terrorist plots they weren't aware of. Instead they pretty much know nothing. Scans of my fingerprints lol. Storing my voice print? I am not so full of myself that I believe anyone cares enough about me to store my info.
All the people talking on facebook drug groups have nothing to worry about, why would they? The spy agencies can't even track Jihadists who are openly using Twitter, but I should worry because I posted a Trump meme? Posts like yours empower the government, you are encouraging everyone to be afraid and hide. They should take to the internet and fight for justice. We outnumber them, they work for us, they are not our masters. I love posting about my drug crimes online, I refuse to be afraid. The fact there are 10 million of us posting pictures online of our illegal drug use, and nothing ever happens, should be a clue that big brother is in no position to do anything. They would be totally overwhelmed with all the info.
A big database of everyone I "know" gets more retarded every year I am on Facebook as I add people I know even less. Having access to my 500 friends will provide big brother will the useless information I talk to a lot of people into the same shit I am. If anything social media is increasing freedom. Pot legalization would never have got this far without it. The drug war mentality is being eroded daily. Cops shoot a person and there is a protest that night. Bad judges are getting removed because of public pressure. People are fighting back against a bullshit slanted media. You have never had a platform like this to make your voice heard, and instead of shouting you want freedoms, you are hiding. So you honestly suggest the solution is delete all your accounts and hide? And really at the end of the day I hope the guy who searched how to make a bomb on google does get a knock on his door, some search terms should set off alarm bells somewhere. If you killed your wife your search of how to get rid of a body should be used against you, right after it's subpoenaed legally in a court of a law. Even with my IP the only way the cops can find out who I am is by going to court. They don't have some magic button that tells them who is behind every IP. If your FB is set up with a fake name and no picture, they pretty much have nothing on you. Same with my google searches, that info is stored, but it's just a IP # it's not your name unless you used real name in Google+. Scan of my fingerprints, GTFO with that.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: my3rdeye]
#23959756 - 12/27/16 03:35 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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If policy/law changes happen or corrupt fucked up people get into office/in charge of certain countries...then the data that is stored could start fucking peoples lives over.
Gays, Drug users, etc....and yeah it's probably unlikely, but why allow it in the first place?
It is fucked up to know that they are logging all that info on every single person, permanently.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: sh4d0ws]
#23959988 - 12/27/16 08:52 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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found this study while browsing facebook
Facebook lurking makes you miserable, says study - BBC News www.bbc.com/news/education-38392802
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: mt cleverest]
#23960007 - 12/27/16 09:04 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mostly bad news or pointless quackery on Facebook.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Patlal]
#23960074 - 12/27/16 09:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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It all depends on how you use it and if you keep it all in perspective. I don't think that social media is inherently good or bad, but people can use it either way.
The other concern is the people who run the social media sites. What is their intention and motivation? Like the Twitter guy is a real ass hat.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Senor_Doobie]
#23960120 - 12/27/16 10:08 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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There are obvious good points. I don't think we have adapted to this new media. It feels as though it was like this a long time, but we didn't even have smart phones in my high school. The iPod touch was amazing. Internet on a mobile device.
Really, I think it's just too much information for most people to handle all the time. It's stressful and addictive and causes drama
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Patlal]
#23960200 - 12/27/16 10:44 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good, it drives people to their extremes. The alphas that want attention and are confident enough to show themselves off will do so and the betas that are self-conscious will become even bigger pussies.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Webster10]
#23960218 - 12/27/16 10:52 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Webster10 said: Good, it drives people to their extremes. The alphas that want attention and are confident enough to show themselves off will do so and the betas that are self-conscious will become even bigger pussies.
And why is that good?
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: LobsterSauce] 1
#23960338 - 12/27/16 11:43 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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LobsterSauce said:
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Webster10 said: Good, it drives people to their extremes. The alphas that want attention and are confident enough to show themselves off will do so and the betas that are self-conscious will become even bigger pussies.
And why is that good?
Because betas don't have to be betas if they can overcome their demons. It's equal opportunity.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Patlal]
#23960596 - 12/27/16 01:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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i believe its a great thing for society. Less crooked cops can get away with shit.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#23960682 - 12/27/16 02:29 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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The eye in the sky baby
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Patlal]
#27496757 - 10/07/21 11:56 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Social Media is a medium that connects many communities through online technology. Social Media acts beneficial for all communities if you do proper and right use of it. But it can affect you badly too, if you use it in the wrong way then it is a destroyer for you. In simple, Social Media affects Society in both negative and positive ways."
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: firstdigiadd]
#27496819 - 10/08/21 01:03 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Smartphones and Facebook have torn the fabric of society to shreds.
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Pretty good.
Easy way to be in contact with friends.
I don't actually use social media because I'm pretty much a loner but if I was to use it, I would use it the same way people use LinkedIn.
I've read that employers check Facebook, courts check social media to use certain posts as proof of anti social behaviour. I would just spend my time painting a perfect picture of myself so that people who viewed it would see a good character. I would post myself volunteering, hanging out with friends. Just use it as a character reference tool.
I've been meaning to build up social media for this reason but I have like 5 friends on Facebook. The first thing to do is go to lots of social events to find more friends for Facebook I guess.
I was in a course I didn't fit in with the other students and then in a really toxic workplace so I literally have no one on my Facebook apart from old housemates.
Most the people I have been spending time with are mental health workers for my issues who obviously it wouldn't be appropriate if I sent them a friend request.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: A2d2]
#27497553 - 10/08/21 04:07 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Steve Jobs didn't even let his own child use an iPad.
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That's because he was more of the opinion that children should be working by that age.
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: PatrickKn]
#27497781 - 10/08/21 07:19 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Steve Jobs was insane and a tyrant.
I hope Facebook would die off like Myspace but I think its here to stay unfortunately.
Everyone is making a big deal abt them being down for 6 hrs or whatever, pfft....
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Re: Social media. Good or bad for society? [Re: Patlal]
#27497904 - 10/08/21 08:30 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I dont think its as bad as they make it out to ne, just that whats being talked abt is selling for thrm, like being for it a few years ago. Just the story has changed.
Teen girls jave always hated their bodies/compared them to other girls, social media just gave all the complainers something to point at.
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