Unpopular opinion: Social Media Will Never Be Real Life

[Field Marshall Bradley]

There has been plenty of violence, policies, and campaigns influenced by social media

Do you have any examples…? Cause the things you listed existed pre internet

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

If a 16 year old has been online consistently since they were 8 years old, then I can see how social media may have affected their day to day behaviors, mindset and habits

 

[Burned Verses]

Do you have any examples…? Cause the things you listed existed pre internet

The el paso & christchurch shooters

Trump’s campaign/ presidency

Anti critical race theory legislation

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The el paso & christchurch shooters

Trump’s campaign/ presidency

Anti critical race theory legislation

I’ll give you the Trump campaign… propaganda via the internet spilled over into reality during Trump’s first campaign.

CRT has been around for like half a century and I don’t think it was ever taught in primary education. If it was taught it was done at the collegiate level. CRT was just a buzz word used to ban literature that shows that America is fundamentally racist

 

[Nokids]

Good type up but yea social media is Bizzaro world ..

Only on the internet a 30 year old man with no kids is a weirdo , in real life never heard a peep

single mothers, felons and losers run the narratives online when in real life they aren’t regarded as highly

 

[PatCake]

Yet people sp desperately want it to be. Ever notice how users get offended when you say the internet isn't a real place or "touch grass"?

We're going to see a society where a small sub section of individuals live almost entirely on the internet, in this century. The internet will be real for some people soon.

I wouldn't be surprise to see that soon.

 

[Shadow King]

I don't think some of the responses understand what the OP is saying.


Social media will never be an accurate representation of reality, nor will it be trustworthy that any particular thing done/said on social media will align with real life. That is obviously true, and it's hard to see away around it.

He's not saying that social media doesn't impact real life. It DOES impact life, but from a particular warped perspective, and that's the problem.

This is still false/will prove false as more and more humans are born and raised in an Internet/social media-intrinsic world.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

People are not willing to accept the truth of social media's influence. Prior to social media it was somewhat movies but more so music and television (ads). The only difference now is social media is a click away and more frequent. Folks need to recognize shyt for what it is. For example, back in the days people had no problem drinking from a water hose in the backyard. Now you have people who only drink bottle water and that was all through advertising.