Submitted 10 months ago by froghorse@lemm.ee to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Consider children.
Lots of free time.
Kinda dumb (sorry but that’s just how it is. It’s physics. It’s unavoidable.)
Confident in their rightness. (see above)
Reactive, get excited easily. (hormones and such)
It could also be boomers, your 4 points perfectly describe my parents…
I would say Its full of everyone. But it does vary greatly between platforms. On mastodon the users are much older (think 35-45yo) compared to tiktok where it’s the 10-19 yo that are the biggest chunk of their users.
I’d say there’s significantly LESS children, but they put out a LOT more content than older people.
Youre the only adult on the internet
Children don’t really have that much free time than many adults, they have to go to school and all, and usually have to go to bed earlier. Beside, you only spend a small amount of your life being a child, so even assuming you’ve had access to social media since you were capable of writing, it’s likely that at the end of your life, unless you’ve suffered an early death, you’ll have spent more time as an adult on social media than as a shitposting child.
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upvote here if you are an adult
upvote here if you are a child
Might as well ask: are most people children? All the same points apply.
I dont think all social media users are children, or even the majority. But nearly all of them certainly seem to act like children online.
I am not quite sure why this happens, but if I had to guess I wouls say social media lends itself to very quickly becoming an echo chamber, so people only hear what they want to hear and only get compliments or likes or whatever. Before social media, people were forced to learn how to be civil and respectful to everyone, especially people you didn’t agree with. Nowadays, you just mute/block/hide them.
Why learn how to be respectful and hear people rightly tell you you’re wrong when you can just make yourself feel like a god by silencing everyone?
i’d say it depends on the social media.
Children, bots, and trolls
sour@kbin.social 10 months ago
physics ._.
Sylver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Everything is physics if you’re vague enough!
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
xkcd.com/435