Technology

I left FB back in 2020 among other social media accounts.

The problem with people, just in general.. regardless of who they are, what they believe in, what part of the world they live in... they just read headlines and quickly post it for attention. They don't take the time to read it, ingest it, question it, find other sources to provide more details or to counter the story. People don't care to have a holistic view of an issue and that's sad. At the same time I also blame the chitty producers of said news and the titles they decide to go with and how they love to bury the more important information 4-5-6-7 paragraphs or more down the page.. you have to read all this bs fluff to finally get to the meat and potatoes of the issue.

I'm hoping that some how, some way, an unbiased AI is created just for internet search purposes, where it can gather all the data, analyze it, then present its findings into a summary with all the sources listed.

Never had a facebook, still won't have a facebook

For me social media in general is best at a minimum.

Left it long ago in 2017. Never looked back.

It's a mental addiction itself. those who may try to detox themselves obviously will have to go through the withdrawal symptoms.

This title is ambiguous: reduces belief in the fake news topics themselves, vs. that fake news exists.

Anyway, yes, it does wonders for mental health and sanity to unplug from that cesspit of human "alternative knowledge"!:-P

So I was right when I thought social media is propelling us to collapse and that it is analogous to cigarettes on a collective scale.

Small solace though, it already permeated every corner of civilization changing us in mostly bad ways.

I think we really need to choose our social media carefully knowing that every type has their own mental illness flavour risks from body dysmorphia to groupthink. We need to be self aware of our shortcomings and tricks employed by corps for harvesting engagement.

Nowadays you turn off your brain and browse social media to relax but you should rather do the opposite. Focus the brain knowing the site was purposefully made to trick you to spend as much time on it as possible and invest as much emotions as possible. This isn’t some harmless casual leisure activity, you become a cog in a corporation war for information when you open the site. On unfriendly territory, a battlefield of digital war, you ought to wear a helmet at least.

It'll make you feel infinitely better all around. I got rid of mine almost a year ago.

Deleting it all together is better.

For my relatives Facebook's not the problem, it's all the far right wing propaganda on YouTube that makes claims without backing them up with any sort of evidence. The more they watch, the more they believe it, and the less they believe evidence to the contrary.