Will there ever be a day that social media goes away?

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Everybody is depressed, everybody has anxiety and fear of missing out. Money doesn’t solve it and fame doesn’t solve it either. It makes it worse. Just this constant self validation and this need to create this perfect picture of your virtual self for those dopamine daps and likes. We’re all virtual drug addicts. Then you got trolls shytting on you, people taking your words out of context, anger, hate, hate, hate, more hate, rage, tribalism, anxiety, validation, depression, confusion and fear. It’s just a fukking ball of negativity feeding on itself. We don’t even know what to be mad about anymore. Now we just shun people, on some Jehovah’s Witness slash Salem witch trial. Remove them from society, remove their music, their shows, just erase their very existence. Maybe we’ll end up like that episode of black mirror where you put people on ignore and they end up a muffled silhouette. This society is toxic and becoming more toxic and we can’t escape it. The only hope is the knowledge that every new generation rejects the trappings of the previous generation. Maybe they will reject social media before it destroys us all.
 
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Crazy thing is I’m a Gen x’er trapped between two worlds. Me and my peers know what life was like before social media but we just as addicted. The only difference is we were latchkey kids who didn’t have adult supervision, because our parents worked and left us at home alone. We came up during the aids epidemic, the peak of violence in America, reganomics, crack era and the mtv age. We were forced to be out there in the world. But now our children are so restricted. Did we create this? Day care and rules and gluten free and allergies and feelings and the pressures of social media. What the fukk are we creating? It’s too toxic and isolating. We have supercomputers attached to our hips but we are so disconnected. I know people that have 2000 Facebook friends but only 2 friends in real life. It just feels evil.
 
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I doubt it and its just because of the marketing tools behind it. I'm sure all those problems existed 20 years ago but the world wasn't as connected as it is today so things weren't out in the open. The web can be both positive and negative depending on how you look at it. People been trying to outshine each other for years, and hating on others for even longer for what they have or don't have. It could get depressing seeing people that have something that you don't but then you have something that others don't. It's like one big wheel that keeps on turning. Social media allows us to be connected with people all over the world. There are motherfukkers on here from every continent I believe. Learning new shyt about different places and sharing knowledge. Social media isn't all stunting for the gram and ig hoes. But that's the platform they use to promote their product. Its the reason why it won't go away. The fact that you can promote your company or product for free to the masses is something our parents generation never even thought was possible.
 
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It's gonna take something real drastic for that to happen and I fear it's only going to get worse the more humans strive to give autonomy to everything that requires labour in their lives to those that are more than willing to take it from you.

As Breh above said, just keep off that shyt and limit your time with the people that can't live without it .​
 
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I predict there will be a trend of people disconnecting from social media.

But there is only ONE way that'll happen.

You see, social media is addicting for one reason and it's the same reason why we log into the Coli everyday:

Validation.

Social media is essentially validation in a can.

You can just log on and collect likes which does feel good. Probably has something to do with dopamine.

Even the trolls and simps just get a kick from the attention of their victim.

The only way social media goes away is if people stop giving value to the validation they get from it

or the sites take away the ability to give/receive said validation.

Imagine the Coli without reps and daps. It keeps us in line and keeps us coming back.

The only people left would be the ones actually interested in a particular topic.
 
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Those Who Run said:
I predict there will be a trend of people disconnecting from social media.

But there is only ONE way that'll happen.

You see, social media is addicting for one reason and it's the same reason why we log into the Coli everyday:

Validation.

Social media is essentially validation in a can.

You can just log on and collect likes which does feel good. Probably has something to do with dopamine.

Even the trolls and simps just get a kick from the attention of their victim.

The only way social media goes away is if people stop giving value to the validation they get from it

or the sites take away the ability to give/receive said validation.

Imagine the Coli without reps and daps. It keeps us in line and keeps us coming back.

The only people left would be the ones actually interested in a particular topic.
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But that’s what forums were back in the day. The only validation you got was either a direct reply to your post, or replies to your thread. A good post was typically seen as one based on how many people responded to it. Likes cheapen it in a way. Just a quick tap that says ‘I acknowledge your post’. Now we feed off of it.

I still feel strongly that more people will disconnect from it, because of how unhealthy and negative it all is. Sort of a counterculture social media revolution. I do think the children of milllenials will be the catalyst. I hope.
 
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