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Social Media is Kinda Cringe and Why I Won't Be On Twitte...
4 years ago
As today is Justice Day, here's a talk about internet.
As months and years go by, it seems like everyone will be eventually labeled as a scumbag on the internet at some point in their lives and I very much hope that doesn't happen to me, so this is maybe just a rain dance for the future of me on the internet, and I'll probably keep this as my top journal for quite a while. Social media is pretty cringe at the moment and many personalities are lost because of even their tiniest amount of flaws being magnified.
For example, Notch, creator of Minecraft, has had a downfall because of his percieved homophobic and racism. I don't believe the evidence for these reasons is substantial enough to draw those conclusions, but the opposite of that is very much there. After reading his recent tweets, I can say that he is a pretty chill guy whose into coding, gaming, joking around, and factorio shenanigans.
He does want to distance himself from Minecraft because he cannot interact with his fans in the same close manner as when he first started, which led to him detaching himself and making the general public not fond of him, which also came with hatred from the general public. This video also helps explain what i'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQOxnhX0D0U
In the same vein of Notch, I would also like to have that same level of engagement with people. As of now, I do this by literally talking and streaming with requesters over Discord, connecting with them on a person to person basis. It is very gratifying to talk with people and get to know them better, sending memes and other stuff I'm working on.
So in general, I don't like the grand plaza of social media because it highlights any flaws or misunderstandings in people and tacks those flaws to people for the rest of their lives.
Evidences can include Cancel Culture, Mob Mentality, and Us v Them Mentality. These things should never be demonstrated nor be used as a tool to gain popularity. They hurt everyone as much as lies and can be more harmful if people make them their foundation of reason.
For these reasons, I am not going to be using or creating an account on Twitter and other platforms. There is way too much hate and controversy by people who cannot listen to reason. Plus there's already enough furries on twitter, and there's quite a bit who do both.
I want to make some dent in this growing problem, and a first step to a goal is writing it down somewhere.
tldr; social media is poopy and I want to connect with people.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk, and I hope you can understand my semi-rant-thesis I've made at 6 in the morning.
Have an absolutely awesome day, and bring it to everyone else. :)
-MMPM
You got kpop stans and dream stans that I see on irrelevant posts. Even tweets where someone died and they think it's okay to plug in their copy-paste kpop montages.
It's not particularly an issue with the sites in themselves, although they're designed from the ground up to exploit addictive behaviors that keep people coming back, but more so how people go about using it that's the problem.
I totally agree with the assessment of it being a dumpster fire, but it is possible to have a healthier experience. It requires a heavily curated feed, utilizing features like blacklists and reducing the amount of accounts you interact with/follow. Keep it to around 10-20 accounts, ones that you truly care about, instead of watching hundreds of accounts and being at the mercy of the feed's algorithm. It is possible to use those sites without being sucked up into the daily discourse and "cancel culture", it just requires a ton of work.
In my opinion, that effort isn't worth it unless you've already got a huge following behind you.