Unsocial Media

[michaelboy]

Rapid-fire social media, unlike a slower-paced journalling style, seems often now to consist more of shared/reposted/regurgitated memes than very much in the way of substantial and thoughtful writing. Even whether or not I agree with a point being proffered, it is almost always less impactful and believable to me when an idea isn’t carefully considered, sorted and then written in the poster's own words. Moreover, and beyond even advertising space, we are presented way too many unsolicited feeds of unwanted or irrelevant information with an equal measure of blatant misinformation. It's all beginning to feel very dirty. I get that ads are what gives a "free" service it's wings, but what happened to the days, when you would predominantly see what your friends might have actually posted? This evolution makes it way too easy for cherry-picked or inaccurate information to slip onto user's feeds which can be both anger-inducing and frustrating. While I'll still keep at least one of those forms of social media, I resolve to participate much less and only minimally observe, while companies like Meta create even newer ways of sowing the seeds of unwarranted discord. It just is starting to feel unproductive, ugly and like an enslavement to a social cesspool. Why do I feel this way? I am not really certain but there you have it.