Social media is important.
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Social media is important. It’s not pointless gossip or just a waste of time. It’s the news and information distribution system of our world.
We can build things like the wikipedia, like the fedi OR we can keep pretending it’s all just a side game, unserious and not worth the effort of making it good. We can say “it’s just how I relax” as these powerful people plan out our reeducation to better serve the consolidation and concentration of their power.
Am I an alarmist? I am alarmed.
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Social media is important. It’s not pointless gossip or just a waste of time. It’s the news and information distribution system of our world.
We can build things like the wikipedia, like the fedi OR we can keep pretending it’s all just a side game, unserious and not worth the effort of making it good. We can say “it’s just how I relax” as these powerful people plan out our reeducation to better serve the consolidation and concentration of their power.
Am I an alarmist? I am alarmed.
When I try to engage people on this topic a huge obstacle is the trivialization of the role of social media in most people’s minds.
Consider how there was (and for some there still is) a debate about if a President should tweet at all. Social media is seen as an arena for vain, unserious, narcissistic people. People describe spending time on it like it is a vice: they talk about cutting back.
To say making good social media is important makes no sense through this lens.
But it’s The Media!
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