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diff --git a/content/entry/the-perils-of-social-media.md b/content/entry/the-perils-of-social-media.md index a0db5c5..2a86db9 100644 --- a/content/entry/the-perils-of-social-media.md +++ b/content/entry/the-perils-of-social-media.md @@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ title: "The Perils of Social Media" date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00 draft: false -makerefs: false --- ## Recording Everything Without Consent -I'm exhausted of people recording everything they do wherever they go and posting it to antisocial media[1]. I don't have antisocial media for a reason. I don't consent to pictures/videos of me being uploaded to antisocial platforms. I don't agree to the terms and conditions. I don't want to be featured, not even in the background. +I'm exhausted of people recording everything they do wherever they go and posting it to [antisocial media](/glossary/). I don't have antisocial media for a reason. I don't consent to pictures/videos of me being uploaded to antisocial platforms. I don't agree to the terms and conditions. I don't want to be featured, not even in the background. I hate it when I'm out somewhere doing stuff and I get peer pressured to take group photos. I wouldn't mind taking pictures, but they somehow always end up on platforms I take issue with. Even if I ask people not to put me on antisocial media, that doesn't exclude all the surveillance apps they don't think of as social media. It inevitably ends up synced to Goolag or crApple's iCloud anyways. @@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ It's amazing how people rationalize antisocial media addiction. Some studies sho Among the worst things antisocial media does to our species is robbing us of the benefits of spending time truly alone. Again, this problem didn't start with antisocial media, but antisocial media has worsened it. Take a few hours to sit quietly in your room alone without being on your phone or watching television. Observe your own thought patterns. Reflect on your habits, relationships, goals, health, and career. There's so much more to life than watching the next Youtube video. ## Being Sucked In -I also hate the way antisocial media forces people to sign up and sucks them in. I've already written at length about how antisocial media and online disservices are making it practically impossible not to sign up in my entry titled "Manufacturing Agreement"[2]. +I also hate the way antisocial media forces people to sign up and sucks them in. I've already written at length about how antisocial media and online disservices are making it practically impossible not to sign up in my entry titled "[Manufacturing Agreement](/2021/08/21/manufacturing-agreement/)". I currently reside in México and there are many activities I'm outright excluded from because I refuse to download WhatsApp, Facecrook's disgusting proprietary malware. As much as I've tried to insulate myself from WhatsApp, refusing to use it isn't easy. I'd say it's the equivalent of being without a phone number living in the U.S. At some point or other, you almost have to either use WhatsApp yourself or use someone else's. It's not illegal not to have it, but refusing is very impractical. @@ -64,15 +63,8 @@ The safest assumption for popular technologies and platforms is that the way peo As individuals, we must do everything we can to adapt to collective problems for the sake of our own well being. But we must also recognize that these platforms are made to get people addicted and realistically, very few people can successfully abstain from antisocial media through raw stoic effort. Their individual success stories are not a substitute for a real collective solution. ## What About The Fediverse? -So far, I've been specifically addressing traditional proprietary antisocial media platforms. I haven't mentioned free/libre social media protocols like the Fediverse[3]. A lot of the criticisms I've made here could probably be applied to the Fediverse too, although it being free software and not invading users' privacy already makes it infinitely better than proprietary antisocial media platforms. +So far, I've been specifically addressing traditional proprietary antisocial media platforms. I haven't mentioned free/libre social media protocols like [the Fediverse](https://fediverse.party/). A lot of the criticisms I've made here could probably be applied to the Fediverse too, although it being free software and not invading users' privacy already makes it infinitely better than proprietary antisocial media platforms. I've heard good things about the Fediverse, but I'm skeptical that its communities would be as healthy if all antisocial media users migrated there. Protocols like Gemini and those of the Fediverse have benefited from a self-selection bias towards techies that care about privacy and free software. So basically, they're non-random samples of the highly educated population that already has some core values in common. -I wonder if it would be more effective to encourage people to give up antisocial media altogether or try to get them to migrate to the Fediverse. Let me know what you think.[4] - - -Links: -[1: Glossary: Antisocial Media](/glossary/) -[2: Manufacturing Agreement](/2021/08/21/manufacturing-agreement/) -[3: The Fediverse](https://fediverse.party/) -[4: Contact Me](/about/) +I wonder if it would be more effective to encourage people to give up antisocial media altogether or try to get them to migrate to the Fediverse. [Let me know what you think.](/about/) |