It’s a race for external validation and bragging and painting a false image of your life, and for you to keep in touch with anyone you ever met that you never will keep in touch with. If you take a few steps back you see how truly useless it is, unless, of course, you’re meta or Microsoft or whoever is just siphoning all your valuable data and selling you shit that you don’t need by manipulating you.
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stochasticity@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t understand what social media has to offer me anymore.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
social media had nothing to offer except attention and undeserved attention/validation.
hansl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even more so when some of my friends are already using AI to fake some of their shares. Good thing I have good friends who clearly didn’t spend their last vacation having dumplings with Jinping or Poutine with Putin. But there is a blurred line there where I’m not sure my colleague who didn’t take a vacation in the last six months at work went cave diving. I’m waiting for those reports, Brian!!
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s probably because you don’t have any deplorable personality traits which can only be validated by other assholes on the Internet.