It is not just the algorithms. You get an awful lot of crazed action from the uncurated commenters too. I bailed from Facebook a decade ago and have never been in X or any of the video platforms like TikTok or Instagram so my perspective is from MSM and the print portions of the Internet. A lot of these p…
It is not just the algorithms. You get an awful lot of crazed action from the uncurated commenters too. I bailed from Facebook a decade ago and have never been in X or any of the video platforms like TikTok or Instagram so my perspective is from MSM and the print portions of the Internet. A lot of these platforms don't allow comments but when they do I often read them to try to take the pulse. Even when the owners are posting relatively civilized, if sometimes controversial pieces, the commenters are often just off the wall especially when it comes to basic norms. I have abandoned some of my regular read and comment platforms after watching people call each other morons or other things that would be considered fighting words if you did it in person. Lots of people advocating violence too. While some of this is undoubtedly trolls, I have been doing this for years and have a long memory about prior posts. It could be that they are consuming social media out of my line of sight and adopting attitudes from that but I find little evidence like links. What links that do exist are generally amusing or downstream links from MSM.
Double post from your first link.
It is not just the algorithms. You get an awful lot of crazed action from the uncurated commenters too. I bailed from Facebook a decade ago and have never been in X or any of the video platforms like TikTok or Instagram so my perspective is from MSM and the print portions of the Internet. A lot of these platforms don't allow comments but when they do I often read them to try to take the pulse. Even when the owners are posting relatively civilized, if sometimes controversial pieces, the commenters are often just off the wall especially when it comes to basic norms. I have abandoned some of my regular read and comment platforms after watching people call each other morons or other things that would be considered fighting words if you did it in person. Lots of people advocating violence too. While some of this is undoubtedly trolls, I have been doing this for years and have a long memory about prior posts. It could be that they are consuming social media out of my line of sight and adopting attitudes from that but I find little evidence like links. What links that do exist are generally amusing or downstream links from MSM.