I don't think anyone would disagree with this.. no one is arguing for reading all/any books. Is social media worth reading at all?
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Some of it is. Importantly social media allows for a reasonably quick back and forth on even terms that a blog doesn't really allow for. The quality of that discussion is of course dependent on the userbase.
If we take lesswrong, the rationalist/ EA blog famous for Roko's Basilisk that brought Grimes and Musk together as an example, Yud spent years growing a cult of sycophants for his bs ideas on AI risk. Now that he's taken it to the arena of social media, people have been taking him apart in a way that never happened on his site (that he could of course ban you from).
Forums are better for these discussions, but they're also basically dead thanks to reddit.
Yes, I was almost going to make an addendum, I do t think social media is all bad /worthless either. Mostly bad, but that is sort of the situation with anything lol. I think social media usage (including my own lol) is far too excessive compared to the benefits.
Reddit (mostly) killing forums is a crisis lol. I'm glad some have survived tho, and pockets of the internet see it as preferable. I'd love to see a return.
Are forums 'social media'? 🤔 I think they sort of are/were.
Yeah I think anything that has regular user generated content e.g, forum, BBS, newsgroup etc is social media, whereas blogs, news websites, netflix etc are not.
It's always funny when they show those studies that say "actually social media isn't harmful at all" and I think hmm, it seems to have literally destroyed all social occasions. I never use social media on my phone so end up staring at the back of peoples phones.