What do you guys think about social media? Was it a good advancement in technology or should it have never happened?

What do you guys think about social media? Was it a good advancement in technology or should it have never happened?
Why?

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In 2005, I remember spending entire days going on facebook and just browsing the music and movie likes of random people at my college. It was all so new and fascinating.

Good from exhibitionists a little bit like op's pic. Otherwise it's scientifically made to be addictive by the biggest ones. I don't really share personal things often

>ris
>all those thot selfies
hmm

I miss web rings, I still go through them on Neocities. Tumblr shit is too boring and predictable.

It's a giant leap towards us reaching the technological singularity. So yes, it was a good advancement.

>You will never have a 10/10 high maintenance thot girlfriend who looks like a porn star and all your friends are jealous of but she never puts out

In theory it was a good idea... But practically, it's a fucking terrible idea.

Sauce?

I'm not a fan. Other technology follows a straightforward idea of "you want this thing I made? Here, take it for this amount of money". The creator gains money and the consumer gains whatever they decided was worth spending money on.

Social media is something else. It's literally "free" drugs that people get hooked on and don't even realize that they're paying a price. It is deceptive and provides no benefit to the end user. There is a place for stuff like LinkedIn, which makes sense since we're in the 21st century after all. If you count topic oriented forums as social media, they're fine as well. But Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. are a blight.

can't tell if amputee

posted the only reason i even type a soc networks address on any of my browsers.

>What do you guys think about social media?

It connects me with cute people around the world.

Sup Forums connects me with people around the computer.

Biggest mistake we've made since Bush was elected

Probably at it's peak now, money-grabbing and attention-whoring is off the charts, but it that dies down a bit and after some restructuring it will be a good advancement IMHO.

I do have old fake accounts I use and it's clear that some platforms are dying. The sheer amount of posts, the search/what might interest you algorithms, the spam, the "all about the money" attitude turns most of them into list of posts of tits and autistic screeching.

It's weird though, as communicating with people through the internet was a geek thing, and now mostly the geeks are the ones not using social media.

no

How did she lose her leg?

I'd still hit that, but I want to know.

She didn't lose her leg, it's just folded the other way

>implying Gore would've been any better

The whole two horse race Americans think they have is retarded.

>She didn't lose her leg, it's just folded the other way
I see no evidence of that.

Arguably, President Trump broke the two horse race system with the deep state still trying to attempt a coup against him

You literally can't because it's folded the other way.
...retard.

bad

Actually you can, so you're the retard.

We are just pretending.

>President Trump broke the two horse race system with the deep state still trying to attempt a coup against him

user where's her other leg?

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Not doing your homework, Jamal

>stupid kids still think literal prostitutes promoting their services are real girls
>beta orbit them like the moon does earth
kek

Anything other than messaging was a bad idea. Now social media is trying to be a little self contained world that gets you addicted.

You're assuming facts not in evidence. Why?
Why are you trying so hard to believe she's not an amputee?
What do you have against amputees?

>She didn't lose her leg, it's just folded the other way
yeah, but her right hand is clearly gone.

Look at her fucking knee, her leg is folded behind her, you can tell when it's been cut off and the skin stretched over, and that's not how it looks.

The last time the us had a president who wasn't democrat or republican was in 1869. Totally not a two horse race though right?

I don't use anything aside from Instagram.

I feel a lot of people growing up now are going to have huge depression issues faces with lives that are made to appear perfect and comparing themselves to them.

I think it's a great way to make a new generation concentrate more on how people think you feel over how you actually feel.

Call it stereotyping, but I've seen people put more thought into how they are going to look while eating their food on that new selfie, over how that food was actually made, how it tastes or how you feel in the moment you eat it.

Because life isn't as much about having fun as it is looking like you have fun to make your high-school rival jealous.

This seems to be a much broader phenomenon among women, but it happens with men too.

President Trump isn't really a Republican, he just used the GOP to win the presidency, look at how often the GOP and the Deep State feuds against the president

>amputee
If you fold your leg your thigh will create a bump just like her thigh on the inner side. If there would be no leg after knee there wouldn't be anything squeezing that thigh, making it straight.

made life better for social butterflies but worse for the already social outcasts.

it's basically your personal life resume.

back in the day if you had not friends and shit you could fake it til you made it. and people could get to know you on how you interact with them personally. but now people can look you up and see what your life is likea db judge whether they want to hang out with you or not

if you don't have social media and you are a social outcast type then it weirds people out, raises red flags that its probably because you have no friends and makes people weary of you which keeps you in that no friends pit.

There are literally other photos of the same girl if you reverse search and the girl absolutely has 2 legs, unless the OP pic was taken after her supposed amputation.

I think part of the problem is that we live in a culture very based around what OTHERS think, over what YOU think.

Call me a hippie, but social media just seems like an extension of that. It is more important to get a compliment of a stranger about your appearance than being happy with your own appearance.
>"We wear the clothes others like because we want to be liked by others."

I think it made people dumber and more alone.
I think it only exists because free software failed in the server market.

You're partially right, I think. But that's just the collective gathering of information as a whole, not just in terms of personality.

With one google search you can see your local Chad drunk with his friends, or where he was on holiday or what cringey videos he has put out on YouTube as a kid.

What I find funny is how the concept of "social media" may end up killing or destroying a lot of social aspects. Why would I want to ask Chad how his holiday was when I can just go through his 50 new holiday pictures by the click of my phone?

What's scary is that if you don't have this kind of "personality" on display, people are just going to assume you have no personality to show or nothing to be proud of.

Which is sad.

Anyone else here make catfish accounts just so you can save pics of female friends, girls you went to school with and coworkers?

I have a decent solid Imgur account full of them.. especially love it when they girls show off good pics of their feet.

hate it when girls don't accept my friend requests even though I have the basic btich tag lines of how much I love "friends, family, pets, traveling, coffee"

I even added how I'm on social media for travel and makeup inspo. which seemed to help but a certain person still doesn't want to add me.

How'd it make them "dumber"? I'd argue that's a result of the internet being a thing more than social media.

Maybe she had a really good doctor and plastic surgeon!

fucks with girl's brains too much

Virgin

>What's scary is that if you don't have this kind of "personality" on display, people are just going to assume you have no personality to show or nothing to be proud of.
>Which is sad.

yeah I think I feel that's why everyone these days is so obsessed with travelling.

like I get travelling is a great experience but I feel a good chunk of people's reasoning for it is to put it up for social media rather than just doing it.

and people find you weird for not caring for it


I think you are right though. social media is more for people with a certain personality type. and if you don't fit that bill it makes others feel very inadequate

would love to rate your albums, you know, for research purpose :)

We have an gay pajeet here

The exponential growth of underage sluts is a plus imo

>TRUNEWS
Why do they have to tell me they're true? Can't I make that assessment?

It's like North Korea putting Democratic Peoples' in their name—you know it's BS.

normies accessing the internet was the worst thing that could've happened

And the Republic of Korea (South Korea) is a republic is it not?

Satan lied to Adam and Eve, and there is evil in this world which includes lying

So what is Truth?

There are other choices, but people don't consider them because the political party they support is basically the same as a religion for them.
Changing would be a huge deal, instead of just voting for the person who would be the best fucking president.

this fucking thot.

Are you seriously implying you wouldn't in a heartbeat?

I would, it's upsetting how weak willpower is.

It is. I wouldn't be proud of it, but I'd even pay. If offered to me freely my morals would easily be overpowered by other urges.

The truth is you're been misled by a NYC hustler.

>I think it only exists because free software failed in the server market.
But... it didn't?
> Ganoo + Loonix
> Apache, Nginx
> *SQL
> Myriad languages made to run on free software

Free™ software absolutely dominates on the server. What does that even have to do with social media?

Mastodon. Brilliant

don't act like you aren't part of the eternal september squad.
and if you somehow are, then you have a might have an inkling of a case gramps.