Would black folks be better off without social media?

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Why stop there? Why not ban black people from having phones/internet connection/cars/any modern technology?

The deaths of 4 rappers just proves that all 1.5 billion of black folk on the planet can't behave when we have access to these things.

This.

Bans and censorship and for weak people. OP is basically saying brehs need to be controlled for their own good. How is that a solution? People need to learn self control.

 

[Yzak]

Idk why there isn't a single big social media platform owned and operated by Black people when we spend the most time on them.

 

[3rdWorld]

Life was so much better before cell phones and social media in every respect..kids today wouldnt understand.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

There’s more black millionaires then ever before and shyt hasn’t gotten better at all. All it does is create a bunch of individuals with money who flex on each other and the nikkas below them. Black people don’t practice group economics either and the money goes right back to whites anyway.

Strong black families with both parents in the home is more important. It leads directly to better communities. If millionaires come from that than so be it.

Are the two mutually exclusive?

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Stop using it for dumb shyt…. That’s all you have to do

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Social media has caused a lot of deaths—entertainers (FBG duck, pnb rock, pop smoke, and many others) , FB beefs and drama which have led fights, jail time, flash mobs, relationship nonsense, shootouts… even killed Zacktv. besides giving @BrothaZay daily topics… idk if it’s done much good for common blk folks.

Coli posters love sharing blk social media trauma.

I think so because black people take it seriously the most.

 

[Lv99 Slacker]

Everybody would be.

 

[coldcall]

Overall it's been a net negative

 

[Deltron]

Everybody would be.

this.

social media was a mistake

 

[RareHunter]

Yes. We have a bad habit of over doing things, and that’s just the truth. The nations are suppose to be following us in righteousness as The Most High intended and cleaving to us (which they have cleaved to us and really will when things begin to break down), but as of now we are leading these social media platforms in wickedness and shuck and jiviness to major lvl.

 

[King Poetic]

Yes

Black folks need to get off that fantasy social media life, they have

And actually live the reality they are actually in

Online nikkas are influencers, CEOs, bosses, making moves

Offline in reality, they are broke, shopping at thrift shops, living with mama driving a hell cat but they say they ballin and living in section 8 housing with 2 kids struggling to buy cereal

nikkas need a wake up call

 

[Fanservice]

Education / skills

Financial literacy

Ownership

This is what black people need

 

[bnew]

Education / skills

Financial literacy

Ownership

This is what black people need

people have linked up on multiple platforms to achieve all of the above.

topics/discussions on all of these can be found on social media.

 

[the bossman]

Black folks would be better off not going to restaurants too. Had he been eating a meal he cooked at home he would've never been in a place to get robbed and killed like that

 

[CarmelBarbie]

We don’t need more black millionaires, we need black families

I’m not a fan of social media and I do think it’s been negative overall. But how has social media prevented more black families? The black marriage rate has been on the decline since before social media. no one is being prevented from getting married now if they want it. Other groups are still getting married even with social media around.