The internet is a terrible place?
Yes, the internet is a terrible place.
You used to be just called a bad word, but now everything is different. Now something more terrible is happening here.
People got a lot of triggers.
And here you go on your social network, which is strewn with a thick layer of conditional jellyfish. They are everywhere and you cannot step so as not to fall on one of them. You are stepping on and destroying her tender ego.
They are called conditional because when you step on them, they begin to scream heart-rendingly.
"Someone stepped on me! How painful!"
Previously, in such cases, conditional jellyfish were reminded that it was "actually" on the Internet.
Previously, everyone knew that on the Internet you can say terrible things, to remind you of your childhood injury.
Everyone remembered the first rule of behavior on the Internet: if you do not want to get into shit - do not step on it.
But now a surprise: now, to hurt someone, you don’t even have to do it!
Your words will be flipped in the opposite direction and will be interpreted in their own way in the most painful and incredibly cruel form.
Did you write something about relationships? After a couple of minutes you are already an abuser and nobody cares that you are a woman. If you defend a girl in conversation, then congratulations - you are already an inveterate feminist.
And then racist, terrorist and so on.
What am I saying?
The mechanism of this method one: scream of the downtrodden and humiliated should cause you a primal fear that some people may find you unfit and cast out from the human pack.
The acceptance of almost trouble-free, because the Internet can write anything, and any words you can turn.
If we are talking about a public persona, a great villain in the end is the one whose support group are unable to shout over the support group of the enemy.
The method gives a misfire in one specific case: when people understand that it is impossible to please everyone.
Because even on a brand new crispy hundred dollars there its the anarchists who despise monetary slavery corporations in the world.
Because their delicate feelings from the cruel world you have to protect yourself, no one else can do.
I removed myself from traditional social media from which seems like a long time ago once I discovered steem and havnt looked back since. It’s become a cesspool of self importance and outrage!
If you trusting a profit at all cost company to bring you information then that’s your choice and deal with how it shapes your mind and opinion
I choose to stay out of mainstream discussions and I choose the content I engage with but I’m also comfortable with being an outcast which I know not many are willing to do
Great peace as always
I have a very controversial attitude to the Internet. On the one hand, this is valuable and interesting communication, useful information, especially with regard to the areas in which you are engaged. But on the other - this is a garbage dump of other people's opinions and complexes, which I have to face, even if I struggle to limit myself as much as possible.
I support your outcast style, because so far I have deleted the maximum number of social networks and finally stopped reading the news.
Lol I totally understand, its unfiltered access that can easily have you swept along with a number of narratives that are so convincing but not your own thoughts. All content has some sort of agenda and if you don't know how to decern facts from opinions (something the should be reaching in schools) you are easily influenced by the internet.
I'm not sure how bad it is in Russia but in South Africa, any webpage that is shared on WhatsApp is seen as the absolute truth and no one takes a second thought to debunk it they just share it and things go viral for no reason, just unsubstantiated claims.
I do struggle some days but I try to limit my social activity online. It's a work in progress but I feel I am far better off now
I don’t know whether it will reassure you or upset you, but in Russia the same thing. Any fake thing said somewhere on Twitter or in the general chat is perceived as the truth and spreads throughout the territory and real madness begins. I think that trends and fashion work this way. You just throw some garbage into the crowd for a joke, and the next morning it becomes a real masterpiece.
LOL, that response was so honest and really made me laugh.
As African's, we're always told that you know Europeans and US know better so I often default to thinking that others have it "figured out" but clearly this is a misconception of mine.
That fashion and basically any consumer trend I'm sure is so true, generate enough hype about something and get enough numbers to advocate your point and it's accepted as genius. There's always a steady stream of conformists who have no real opinion ready to be manipulated, they are in no short supply.
Lol) everything is the same here. In Russia they say that they know how this world works and how people live on other continents. The funny thing is that every island, country, group of people is so strongly confident in their features, grandeur and literacy that they do not even notice how they act according to the patterns. This whole world is playing this game, it seems to me.
I will be honest with you I have zero clues on what goes on in Eastern Europe, every time I come into contact with people from the region Like Poland, Ukraine and Russia I'm fascinated because its such a known element to us, we don't get much info about what goes on there.
Lol I think that's so true, with globalisation now we can see it since we have access to other countries easier. It's as if these patterns are wired into humans and regardless of race, gender, location, policies theres some behaviours that simply cannot be shaken.
We like to pretend we're different, special, unique by means of labels since its easier than actually having to do it, the moment you step out and actually be unique you will see how quickly you are forced to conform.
I think we are all playing the game, I just like to watch it all play out, I refer to myself as a professional people watcher lol
I also always thought that living on labels of uniqueness is much easier than swimming against the tide. When you are truly unique (although it is possible now?), you are often rejected and fall out of the crowd. And it is unlikely that you will create a new trend that will become popular the next day. This is a complex mechanism, as if you were going through a storm - it’s hard and cold for you, but you are trying to survive at all costs.
Globalization gave us the opportunity to observe the world and the lives of others, their habits and worldview, but nothing has changed, except now the choice for copying has become greater. just within the globe, lol.
Internet is a great place. It allows you to craft meaningful relationships with other people and to explore and discover pretty much every bit of knowledge that mankind has accumulated over thousands of years.
People, on the other hand, suck. I think that social network is the proof of that. That "flipping" of words, that never-ending circle of indignation and black-or-white ideas is exactly what I most hate about it. It's like they took liberal ideas, progressive ideas, and they made them into another form of bigotry. So you've got bigotry on one side and bigotry on the other. It's a nightmare.
Lucky for us, we can just steer clear though, right?
I agree with you) The Internet is a beautiful and terrible place at the same time. I think that only our personal consciousness and selectivity in choosing information from this "charming dump of minds" somehow saves us from a blind portion of negativity.