Social Media: Boon or Bust?

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Social Media: Boon or Bust?

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On balance, do you find social media to be more helpful than harmful? Or more akin to the Trojan horse? Do you have examples of either?
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Social media can be awesome if individuals are honest & positive.

Most successful current forums have a social meter that rewards positive input & somehow discourages negative actors that attack other active members.

C-mon Rick!






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This is supposed to be a philosophy forum not a social networking site so stuff your 'social meter'.
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I see social media as simply being necessary. It's not always easy for people to see each other in person. Friends and family move overseas and interstate and even urban travel is ever slower and more polluted, prohibitively so in some places. A related benefit is the ability for the elderly and immobile to socialise. In a sense, this is akin to a colder, less articulate, more informal and less pretentiously polite return to letter writing of the past, when writing linked those unable to meet personally for other reasons.

There's also the ability for creative and knowledgeable people to readily publish their work via SM, which is better than nothing even if largely drowned out by the "noise" of idiots and maniacs publishing their fevered ravings :)

Also the use or chats and forums in workplaces as a means of information exchange and capture.

No doubt SM has other uses (and potentials), along with its well-publicised problems.
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Arising_uk wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:31 pm This is supposed to be a philosophy forum not a social networking site so stuff your 'social meter'.
amen...........but with the AOLiscation of the net.................I see all forums dissapearing (but to hosing costs - hey facefk is FREE!),

soon the net will offer nothing for you nor me.

sadly.

fk social media!
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I see it as a boon in the sense that Greta mentioned --- a way to keep in touch with family and friends.

However, as far as spreading information? Largely a huge bust. The vast majority of people on social media form into groups where any opposition views are deleted and the people stating them are banned. This simply creates echo chambers, and much that is being written on social media is rubbish.
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Science Fan wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:17 pm I see it as a boon in the sense that Greta mentioned --- a way to keep in touch with family and friends.

However, as far as spreading information? Largely a huge bust. The vast majority of people on social media form into groups where any opposition views are deleted and the people stating them are banned. This simply creates echo chambers, and much that is being written on social media is rubbish.
Except, you are forgetting the cute cat pictures. They wouldn't get spread around so far and wide with such good resolution if it weren't for the social media and the Internet.

But, seriously speaking, even page-owners delete overly critical and contrarian comments. And they put you on a blacklist if you are a repeat offender or a very highly visible one.
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commonsense wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:43 pm On balance, do you find social media to be more helpful than harmful? Or more akin to the Trojan horse? Do you have examples of either?
It's soooo Trojan! A whole bunch of a horse, filled with Greek seamen. To prevent pregnancy or the spread of STDs.
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So this forum could well be the only place on the entire internet where you can say more or less what you like (within reason). It also possibly has the most polite posters.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:48 pm So this forum could well be the only place on the entire internet where you can say more or less what you like (within reason). It also possibly has the most polite posters.
There is another philosophy forum, where people are even more polite... forgot the name of it. It was dominated by theists, and they hustled me out. You see,a person could buy moderatorship for money there, and a bunch of them put their monies together to get my posts deleted. And issue me warnings. Not for breaking the rules, but for being an atheists, and putting them to shame using logic.
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1: I think I may be familiar with that forum you mentioned.
I know I left one philosophy forum because I was sanctioned for stating that a Christian's God did not exist, during a debate, which was taking place in the forum's atheist-theist debate section. Because I felt it was unfair to allow theists to state God exists, and sanction and temporarily ban atheists for stating that God does not exist, I left in protest. That was not a fair set up and another example of an echo chamber.
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-1- wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:08 pm
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:48 pm So this forum could well be the only place on the entire internet where you can say more or less what you like (within reason). It also possibly has the most polite posters.
There is another philosophy forum, where people are even more polite... forgot the name of it. It was dominated by theists, and they hustled me out. You see,a person could buy moderatorship for money there, and a bunch of them put their monies together to get my posts deleted. And issue me warnings. Not for breaking the rules, but for being an atheists, and putting them to shame using logic.
It's easy to be polite if everyone is agreeing with each other. You will notice I said 'where you can more or less say what you like'.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:20 pm It's easy to be polite if everyone is agreeing with each other.
Yes, and it is also possible to be polite in disagreement.
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commonsense wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 6:43 pm
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:20 pm It's easy to be polite if everyone is agreeing with each other.
Yes, and it is also possible to be polite in disagreement.
Yes. That had already been established.
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Sorry. Missed it. Is it within this thread?
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