Social Media is telling in that it reveals human behavior.
Humans are not, by nature, good. It's why we have doctrines and societies that instill order for our natural chaotic minds.
It's why nice things can be overtaken, manipulated, and utilized for detriment.
But also, humans hide behind a screen and will not behave this way in reality. And if we were to go into full on Virtual Reality, I'd like to see how that pans out. Especially now that humans can be whomever and hide behind an avatar in this virtual world. I actually see this being way, way, worse if it were to be implemented by the masses.
Unless, we humans understand this behavior, it'll continue to be the shit storm brewing into a bigger storm.
I don't think that's true any longer. I don't think social media DOES reveal human behavior generally. I think it games the system to a SPECIFIC human behavior. We aren't bad by nature, but we all have a sort of light and dark. I know I've not kicked Twitter, but I'm also not feeding my ego with likes and shares. My insecurities are, lucky enough for me, sated in other ways. But there are too many for whom that's not the case. I have someone in my family who ought not be within 500 yards of social media but I can't do anything about it. I can't - and won't - force her to get offline. Maybe if her hurtful addiction was heroin, it would be different, but social media is still touted as the next big thing and so how to point at the downside?
It highlights the dark side.
I don't utilize twitter because of the character limit. I think that's dumb and many things can not be said with only 200 characters. This is why I use mainly Facebook because there is no character limit.
I personally think Myspace was the best social media platform, in the sense of having an online profile that is the place where you could spew all the non-sense thoughts you are having.
I also do believe that the problems of social media lie in the aspects related to addictions. Such as how humans get a dopamine hit when their feelings, thoughts, and ideas are accepted by others. So to get that high, humans will do
anything to garner that acceptance, this is highlighted by Tik-Tok.
A great experiment would be to see how people utilize social media if there are no such things as likes or comments, you can still be able to share stuff onto your page. To comment on these videos or posts, you would have to message the person directly, create a small private group chat, or join a public group on the social media site where you join a yahoo-chat like live discussion on the topics people want to chat about related to the group.
If anything my main social media addicitons are Facebook and DTF.