In your opinion which one made you noticed people mindset getting dumber, superficial, vain, zombie-like or worst?
- TikTok
- Snapchat
Facebook
YouTube for me. I just realized I’ve been experiencing brain-rot like symptoms (i.e. unable to concentrate, think deeply in realtime, continue conversations without much pre-thinking) for the past few years because I watch too much Lets Plays as a substitute for human interaction.
Well, good thing you’re fixing it. Avoid YouTube shorts at all costs. Basically the same for tik too videos and Instagram reels.
Either The Epstein list or Truth social
We say usually say Tiktok has ruined peoples mental health/politics, but I find facebook and twitter abhorent.
Stack overflow gave me an insult fetish :3
I would say they are all equally bad… But Facebook should take the crown: Cambridge Analytica
Twitter ruined people’s image of reality. The echo chamber, the content generated for follower counts, the view that the perspectives on Twitter somehow represented what the mainstream population was concerned with, the entitlement that stemmed from each individual thinking they had and deserved a megaphone, the dumbing down of thoughts to meet character limits; that platform was severely detrimental to American society. In my opinion, these issues are far worse than the brain rot, vapid influencer schtick, and right wing radicalization the others generated.
Brain rots REALLY bad but yes twitters character limit alone was a instant decline in dialogue and commentary. I’ve honestly never used it to see an internal representation of how it’s doing damage mentally. So thanks for the insight with this comment
The fact that Xwitter became such an echo chamber and that people there really started to believe that they were the moral compasses of humanity made it gain the appropriate nickname, here in Brazil, of “Black (in the sense of rotten) Banana Institute”.
I think most of them have all done severe damage but in different flavors, perhaps with a little overlap between flavors. TikTok creates stupidity/zombiemind/brainwashed. Twitter creates fascists. Facebook creates idiots. Instagram creates egomaniacs and narcissists. Reddit is all over the place because it’s a collection of different sub-platforms.
Very true honestly
Twitter/Bluesky/Threads/Mastodon
Twitter and it’s imitations have taught us quote-dunking, by extension the idea that online debates are productive, and the idea that nuance is a waste of words. Outside of that it’s just algorithmic curation in general that’s damaging so all the other sites are equal.
Have to agree. And this is pervasive enough that lazy articles about tweets are now a major percentage of online “news”. So-and-so destroys x-and-such on Twitter!" So what? It doesn’t change anything or anyone’s mind.
BTW my answer was Instagram but tiktok came to take the crown
My gripe with Instagram is how it’s become a de-facto way of “staying in touch” with acquaintances and old colleagues
Not in my circles, thankfully. Yuck.
The telephone
instagram , i hope all their servers blow up
All of them.
If there was a way to enable “see verified accounts only”, and “verified” actually meant using a system of legal identity verification in each territory, I would.
By how accounts talk on social networks, I struggle to see more than 5% actually coming from real people. The alternative, that people really are this uneducated, fooled, mean and angry, is just too horrible to bear. I have to believe it’s discord bots destroying our democracy, not actual people. It is, right? Right?!
Reddit. Otherwise we wouldn’t enjoy using a website with its exact mechanics. We are warped. You see the upvotes and downvotes spreading to all kinds of sites. Lesswrong (nucleus of Hitlerian AI cult insanity) wasn’t satisfied and has two forms of upvotes and downvotes. Every site that implements them agrees the voting is meaningless or not to be taken seriously, but they make it their main aggregation tool.
