Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

What I think is interesting about the Guardian piece is the news that large numbers of youngsters - digital natives - are pulling back or want to pull back themselves. "nearly 70% feel worse after using social media"

Why be part of it if you don’t like it? FOMO? I really feel sorry for these young people who should dive into the real world instead of getting lured by commerce and sick minds.

Never liked the ‘social’ part of Facebook, Twitter or any other social platform. Only use FB, Insta for work (announcements ). LinkedIn also for exchanging info.
Never even tried most of these anti-social platforms.

We really should change the collective name for starters. Anti-social media. They hurt adolescents, hurt the world and are a huge threat for democracy all over the world.

 

[Perris]

We really should change the collective name for starters. Anti-social media.

I like that! Great coining. I shall start using it, when the topic comes up in my everyday life (rarely).

 

[Shadrach]

Just curious, why do you compress them before posting them? BYC does actually compress the photos and remove location data.

Habit mostly. Smaller file size makes the reader experience, or it used to years ago, more browser friendly and the pages load faster.

 

[Shadrach]

Interesting contribution to the tech discussion in this morning's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technol...refer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds

A bit hard to take any current "news" outlet being anti social media given the amount of opinion rather than news on most of them.
I'm not even sure what social media is these days; BYC?

 

[fluffycrow]

Tax must be overdue on my a/c: here's Erddig just chillin' the other day
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If one day some of the birds are missing, it was me who stole them. They’ll get to “enjoy” 40C summers and live near the beach, though I doubt they’ll appreciate either

Seriously though, he’s stunning

 

[fluffycrow]

Definitely agree with you on the other points.

are a huge threat for democracy all over the world.

Not sure about this one. So far I’ve seen both extremes (which do seem to be what circulate the most on those platforms); they can be both a great threat and a great ally to democracy

 

[Perris]

the amount of opinion rather than news on most of them

drives me nuts too. Also, imo 'news' is something that has happened, not something that might happen, which is speculation, and there is far too much of that these days too.

 

[Molpet]

Why be part of it if you don’t like it? FOMO? I really feel sorry for these young people who should dive into the real world instead of getting lured by commerce and sick minds.

Never liked the ‘social’ part of Facebook, Twitter or any other social platform. Only use FB, Insta for work (announcements ). LinkedIn also for exchanging info.
Never even tried most of these anti-social platforms.

We really should change the collective name for starters. Anti-social media. They hurt adolescents, hurt the world and are a huge threat for democracy all over the world.

Social media is what you make of it. It's a tool like a hammer. It can be used to make a house in skilled hands......or bash someone's head in if a lunatic gets one.

I use FB for local groups getting information and selling turkey eggs. If a lunatic shows up in my news feed, I keep on scrolling. I don't go to the places the lunatics frequent.

For instance I found a post in the local group about when the bridge on my road is getting replaced. It was from a village official that had read the state bids.
I did a search and couldn't access it without paying.

When I was young the social thing was bars. One learned to be careful as to where and with whom.... I think that was more dangerous than social media.

 

[Skyeknight]

Definitely agree with you on the other points.


Not sure about this one. So far I’ve seen both extremes (which do seem to be what circulate the most on those platforms); they can be both a great threat and a great ally to democracy

A very big negative of current social media is the algorithm. If you have a specific hobby or political view you will only get posts on your feed concerning that topic. A family member of mine deleted TikTok because there was a single video about depression on his feed and after that he just couldn't get rid of those video's. It's very easy to spiral because of the algorithm.

 

[thistlewick]

You can longpress on any social media (or right click on desktop) and click "not interested"

It informs the algorithm of your interests.

Some people can't figure this out, I guess just nuking the whole app is their option.

My YouTube shorts and TikTok feed is full of cozy things, chickens, DIY, crochet, gaming shorts about particular games I play, fantasy books - but only people over 40 who are the reviewers, the TikTok algorithm is *excellent* but you might have to take a minute to train it.

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