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let's face it... before the ubiquity of social networking (facebook, tweeter, digg, and the like) human society was in pretty bad shape already don't get me wrong. but now an entire generation is being raised in a world where social networking is the premiere form of socializing with classmates, friends, family, etc. In effect, your worth is now based around things like number of likes/stars/favorites your terrible quality religious/political/"super hilarious" meme and image macros accumulate. they check their various social accounts upwards 200 times a day according to a recent special i watched on one of the most quality cable outlets that exists (CNN, natch). having the red "new notification" badge elicits a similar reaction to a heroin junkie craving his iix spotting a i think looking back on web 2.0 "the social web", theoretical alien historians and anthropologists will be in agreement that the rise of social media, smart phones to deliver it everywhere in real time, and the rabid adoption of media by people of all walks of life due to all the cheap phones and plans now available was the main contributing factor of the downfall of human society. i expect within 200 years we'll have reverted to civilizations about as advanced as say.. the Incans maybe or Aztecs even.
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nice post but i have to downvote because its common knowledge that the global warming i read about online will kill us all within 3 months
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Dec 15, 2015 17:14
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socxial media are actually extradimensional parasites whose flesh is the movement of electromagnetic current. they feed off of sentient life. make ppl ob noxious a n elf senetered so as to have more pettiness on which to feed. ancientg mesoamericans did some cool fuckin poo poo tho. made the amazon basin hella fertile through a massive terraforming project. terra preta.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:16
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Digg? Have you been saving this post in a word doc since 2006?
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Dec 15, 2015 17:16
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i'm talking specifically about the main factor causing human society to be ruined... obviously global warming will kill the planet (and by extension i guess society along with it) but that's not the type of answer i'm looking for. now... please respect op's wishes on how the thread should conduct itself and take care when writing a response. if you don't think social media was a factor at all, provide a rebuttal. this being GBS i'm sure you'll all be happy to comply with this humble request and i can make this my first 5 star perfect gold thread 
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Dec 15, 2015 17:17
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BigBoss posted:Digg? Have you been saving this post in a word doc since 2006? it's back and better than ever baby can you dig it? 
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Dec 15, 2015 17:18
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I don't know, I get mad when the general public uses social media because I'm a sociopath.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:20
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I think you're just getting old and out of touch
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Dec 15, 2015 17:21
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I'm glad I just happened to be born at the best time in history right before everything ended forever said everyone born ever.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:23
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I like Facebook and emails and posting on SA
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Dec 15, 2015 18:08
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I dunno about actual society, but regular society was hosed as soon as Montell Williams filled every home TV set.
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Dec 15, 2015 18:13
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It's just going to give people that excel at building personal relationships even more of a leg up in everything they pursue than they already had, as more and more people get less and less practice with the nitty-gritty stuff like social timing and emotional intuition. You'll feel like there's a big problem with how society works because of the unfair advantage these people seem to have, but it won't actually be anything new.
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Dec 15, 2015 18:39
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The only time social media was any good was that period from like 2005 to 2007, after people stopped using that garbage MySpace but before Facebook was full of idiots.
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Dec 15, 2015 23:41
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thathonkey posted:it's back and better than ever baby can you dig it? Lol the most popular thing on the front page has less than 50 diggs. Remember when someone wanted to buy it for a load of money and the owner held out? Good times.
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Dec 15, 2015 23:50
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Wulfolme posted:It's just going to give people that excel at building personal relationships even more of a leg up in everything they pursue than they already had personal relationships will soon be a thing of the past my friend unless yr talking about upvoting your boss on reddit after the tumblr img got retweeted from his fb according to jen on what'sapp seriously a colleague that i sit next to started crying when her phone died. generation smart phone/social media is loving hilarious but also it's sad because it makes u think about how much worse its going to get in the future
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Dec 15, 2015 23:51
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nah it's whatever
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Dec 15, 2015 23:51
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hey man, get off my case
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Dec 15, 2015 23:52
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More like unsocial media, am I right?
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Dec 15, 2015 23:53
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they say no man is an island but ive got one hell of a peninsula 
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Dec 15, 2015 23:54
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razamataza posted:seriously a colleague that i sit next to started crying when her phone died. generation smart phone/social media is loving hilarious but also it's sad because it makes u think about how much worse its going to get in the future I am still morose about my last smartphone dieing from battery bulge that said it was also a slideout with a hard keyboard and nobody loving makes those anymore but blackberry gently caress smartphones and the touchscreen bullshit they rode in on
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Dec 15, 2015 23:55
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ya or maybe no i dunno
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Dec 15, 2015 23:58
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social media is just the most visible manifestation of the gamification/quantification problem
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Dec 16, 2015 00:00
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Society has doomed society
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Dec 16, 2015 00:01
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:More like unsocial media, am I right?
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Dec 16, 2015 00:04
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Anyone who says society is already doomed is just being a negative nancy and/or Debbie downer
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Dec 16, 2015 00:08
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The gestalt is coming, and it will be full of sociopathic transhuman teenagers who blame our generation for the weather. Fear the future.
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Dec 16, 2015 00:15
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I can't believe I read that whole post.
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Dec 16, 2015 00:23
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Hmm... you're actually wrong OP, but at least you are sharing your wrong feelings online, where they do not affect mainstream society to any appreciable degree. But let's say if social media does wind up destroying society. I want you to be in my postapocalyptic raider gang. We will grow rich and powerful by beating + robbing the complacent marks who are too busy on their iphones to defend themselves or notice our identifying features.
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Dec 16, 2015 00:24
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I'm glad I just happened to be born at the best time in history right before everything ended forever said everyone born ever. This right here. But specifically, I think the advent of social media addicts is great. Now I have a much more overt sign of douchebaggery to look out for. There are still plenty of people who haven't been ruined by this poo poo and those are, as always, the ones I'm interested in interacting with. Does kind of suck that a lot of young people who but for decent parenting might've avoided the trap are doomed, but that's life!
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Dec 16, 2015 00:24
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hmm yes social media will indeed cause society to erode from within, causing us all to degenerate to an apelike state, much like alcohol and jazz and rock music and drugs and heavy metal and video games and the internet did previously
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Dec 16, 2015 00:41
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I imagine life after our generation will be totally unrecognizable, in that everyone will be using different tools to accomplish the same basic tasks humans have been engaging in for millennia
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Dec 16, 2015 00:45
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I don't think social media has doomed society. People have always surrounded themselves in echo chambers. People have always be interested in easy to read/understand entertainment. But social media does scare me, but it gives easy quantifiable data to pretend to understand the human mind. They already claim to know a person's sexual preference, drug use, political standing, intelligence, and the strength of their dating relationship all by Facebook habits. Right now this data is used for stupid marketing bullshit, that doesn't really have any consequences. But how long until we pretend this data is fact? It will probably not be long until they start pulling out specialized Facebook personality test for courts and job hirings. It is will be another inaccurate tool that people will pretend to be infallible while making life changing decisions. Just like lie decetors and ultrasounds.
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Dec 16, 2015 00:46
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Shwqa posted:I don't think social media has doomed society. People have always surrounded themselves in echo chambers. People have always be interested in easy to read/understand entertainment. But social media does scare me, but it gives easy quantifiable data to pretend to understand the human mind.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e7ye12Rkco&t=37s
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Dec 16, 2015 00:57
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Society is always doomed. Before social media it was TV. Before TV it was other stuff.The day you realize that society is doomed is the day you know you're old. And when you bust out the "Yes, but THIS time it's objectively different, I'm not just railing about Them Kids These Days, I'm right because of...." support, you know it's terminal.
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Dec 16, 2015 01:23
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thathonkey posted:it's back and better than ever baby can you dig it? Clicked half expected to see that pornhub had bought the name.
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Dec 16, 2015 01:27
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Best Giraffe posted:socxial media are actually extradimensional parasites whose flesh is the movement of electromagnetic current. they feed off of sentient life. make ppl ob noxious a n elf senetered so as to have more pettiness on which to feed. hosed up if true.
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Dec 16, 2015 01:30
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Actually society was on its way back up before social media. We had finally gotten out of the phase that any fuckwit owning some barrels of ink made their opinions relevant. Asshats used to call each other out via newspapers and it was stupid as hell. Then for a brief, magical time there was no ubiquitous platform for that kind of bullshit. But now every idiot thinks their deranged/subhuman ideas are worthy of public attention again. So basically yes op.
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Nathilus posted:Actually society was on its way back up before social media. We had finally gotten out of the phase that any fuckwit owning some barrels of ink made their opinions relevant. Asshats used to call each other out via newspapers and it was stupid as hell. Then for a brief, magical time there was no ubiquitous platform for that kind of bullshit. But now every idiot thinks their deranged/subhuman ideas are worthy of public attention again. So basically yes op. So, you're saying that we need to kill net neutrality.
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i work in digital marketing and social media basically invented most of my job and guess what, its a really really easy job. The old people think I'm doing a lot, but I don't do much and get results. I can't keep this up forever, some day they will figure out that social media marketing doesn't really work for most things
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