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title: The Monotony of Social Media
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Abstracting human interaction using software has caused many problems that
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didn’t exist before.
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date: 2023-7-17
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author: Juan Manzanero
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Abstracting human interaction using software has caused many problems that
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didn’t exist before.
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It’s obvious, a lot of interactions on the Internet occurs through social media,
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letting you send friend requests, chat, or share memes and photos. However,
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abstracting human interaction using software has caused many problems that
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didn’t exist before.
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When the Internet started, many people created their own websites because that's
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was the thing you must have if you want to be cool, and a lot of these websites
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was just blogpost-like where the users shares their hobbies like movies, sports,
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books, videogames, etc. This motivation made more unique and human websites,
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where you can meet someone and their likes or dislikes.
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Now, with the boom of social media in the middle of 2000's, people prefer to
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connect just searching for a name or looking the friends of their friends, and
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send friend requests to try and connect. That was cool at the start, as anything
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new, but the problems started when companies like Facebook (now Meta) or Google
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(with YouTube) needed to monetize their platforms, mostly with Ads.
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And of course, that means that they needed to suppress, censor or ban anything
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that could be harmful for society, like hate speeches or stupid challenges that
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could risk people's lives.
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But, the bat thing about this, is that they homogenize almost everyone, forcing
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them to act as the algorithms keeps recommending users with likes and comments,
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guiding the people to act like someone else, and so.
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Now almost everyone does mainly two things, post photos about their "perfect"
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lives or share memes, and don't get me wrong, it's ok to enter to social media
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and try to disconnect for your job or problems, but using this every day as
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instant escape instead of confronting your own problems could be harmful in the
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long term, isolating you from the need of socialize in real life, with real
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people, and thinking that everyone has a perfect life.
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No, EVERYONE has problems in their lives, even more than yours, but social media
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algorithms promotes mainly "positive vibes only" and all that shit that in big
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dose is hamrful for our minds.
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And don't mention the censorship and shadow-banning if you post something
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controversial, it could be something that should not be tolerated like incite
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hate to a group, or it could be something that don't everyone agrees but it
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could be useful think a little about it, but still being controversial.
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Should everyone can tell what they thinks? Yeah, always if doesn't promotes hate
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or hurt other people or animals.
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They're reports like Twitter promotes hate in the algorithm, and Meta knows that
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Instagram increases anxiety and depression on young people, and actually;
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promotes it... as all negative feelings keeps you on the social media
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interacting with others, as that's what those companies sell, your data and time
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to advertisers.
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I recently heard a video talking about this topic, and that would be cool if we
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go back as the starts of the Internet where people created content as a hobby,
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instead of looking for validation through likes and comments, being more
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authentic persons instead of products.
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Should software solutions replace human interactions? I think not, but it's too
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late for almost everyone, but if you're reading this, start changing your life
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first if you want to be honest with yourself.
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Blog inspired by "Why does every personal website look like this now?" by Eric
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Murphy on YouTube.
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