Remember distinctly back in 2005-2010's, everyone was happy, well adjusted, had REAL social lives, hanged out with everyone, were really chill and there were less sociopathic/psychopathic behaviors. Then the 2012's came and you see this shit: >suddenly everyone is “taking selfies” >constantly doing faggot shit with their phone >”what is this psychotic, self-documenting behavior” >refuse to be a part of it >”what’s your facebook user”? >”oh.....you don’t have one? Oh... I’m” >”what’s your insta”? >“Oh...you...don’t have one”? >start to see the most hyper social faggots getting all the irl attention and social status because they can manipulate social media to make their life look cool >the reality is they’re just sitting around with other phone staring faggots taking pictures
Instead of say hanging out, just skating or playing basketball and other team-oriented sports, being with groups playing on our PC in LAN parties or just having fun with every chick we see and catcalling them as a joke amongst ourselves, everyone is now glued on their phones all day pretending they have a life. Truth is most people now just stare at their phones all day then pretend they're the coolest shit with their bants and pics.
Friends slowly pulled away while I slowly isolated myself because of this unwillingness to get on board. This world is so fucking gay. It’s only gotten worse because of COVID. Before, I would have conversations with 15-50 people DAILY. Now, it's been reduced to around 5 people per day. I literally will be shitposting on Any Forums on my phone going for a walk because the second I put my phone down, I see nothing but horror. Nobody actually lives their life they just stare at their fucking phone all day every day, bully and harass others that they don't like to the point of suicide while in real life, pretend they like you or are your friends but will expose themselves what they really think once they post their toxicity on social media platforms.
While social media sites like Friendster and Myspace existed before, people weren't plugged in 24/7 since you needed a PC for that. With the advent of the iPhone and the smartphones that followed with it, everything suddenly changed. What went wrong with this world and where are the sane individuals who has formed communities other than the Amish who outright reject every form of technology after the 1800s?
If I could opt out in this world and join a community where social media shit and smartphones are banned, where acting and socializing like a NORMAL human being while not outright totally neglecting technology but only removing the toxic aspects of it, I would in a heartbeat.
Left was unironically better. I'll try and read all that but I doubt I'm going to finish it.
Zachary Sullivan
Clownworld People use those as ways to perform a background check on you . They judge you like an audition , then scroll to the next person. “You” don’t matter anymore. Clownworld
Andrew Butler
>most people now just stare at their phones all day its rather incredible how attached people are to them
I remember. I also deleted all social media in 2017. > friends pulled away take it from this 31 year old. friends are meaningless. aquintances. if you aren't socially retarded everyone is your friend. all strangers everywhere. you don't need a specific person. deleting social media will help you also being social enough that you can talk to anyone anywhere all the time.
> I would in a heartbeat. many people are deleting social media now. it will accelerate as the collective unconscious notices its a fucking anti social tool, not social. a waste of time. soon it will be cool again to not have social media.
Solid post user. I never got in on Facebook and remember when graduating in 2008 they thought it was unheard of that I didn't want to keep in touch daily.
Fast forward to the present, people are getting cancelled for what they wrote online from 2005 to 2016. Because they were dumb (as we all were) but had the audacity to archive that stupidity for all the world to see permanently.
I'm in the film industry and people also act offended when I tell them I'm not on instagram. I still feel a little guilty. And then I move to the woods for a few months or I break up with a chick and I realize not having social media is freedom. No one monitoring my whereabouts and no one to impress. Most of the population doesn't know what that's like; to never have that obligation.
I know a guy that casts commercials and he said they won't cast people with big social media followings anymore because chances are in the past they've said some dumb shit. So it's not even helping people in the vapid commercial industry
Carter Baker
>collective unconscious notices its a fucking anti social tool, not social Tech elites know this and see it happening. That's why the metaverse is happening; they want to force you to use social media for work and food. As silly as that is would be, they realise using social media for it's intended purpose of socializing is very much antisocial and people are realizing there are more downsides to using.
Joseph Price
If it’s any help, those only fans success stories are 100% fake. I know several women in person who’ve tried this dumb shit and they didn’t make shit and they are way prettier than her. You have to be all in and at all times and constantly promoting, so this idea that random dried up housewives are hitting it big wearing scantily clad outfits only and not doing fetish content is contrived and impossible. They are paid advertisements, all the top earners are celebrities who were already famous
Eli Morgan
bump user, decent read. relatable, just turned 30. i remember. i'd go back in a heartbeat, people were more genuine and down to earth before all this social media faggotry. i can't stand it either, anyone 30+ knows how detrimental smartphones have been to society. IMO humans are not supposed to be """""connnected""""""" like this, its unnatural and a reason for a lot of the mental illness we see.
Landon Peterson
I remember when Kylie Jenner was on the cover for Forbes richest person of the year. She told them she made billions from her makeup line. Well they just took her word for it and turns out she's nowhere close to being a billionaire.
Women lie about their appearance through makeup, it's only natural they lie about their social and financial standing.
Benjamin Rodriguez
mental illness I don't even know how I'd raise a daughter in this world. I think about it alot and can't imagine the stress kids and teens are under
Jordan Collins
>Remember distinctly back in 2005-2010's, everyone was happy, well adjusted LOL
Nolan Reyes
Checked. Can you even imagined being a Zoomer and never experiencing the before times?
Cooper Morales
checked and I agree with you. Social media has turned the world into shit. But we could jut as well manifest the vainlla-wow back into existence. We passed a barrier. Theres no fucking going back. Its like introducing flying mounts. >Well thats convenient , I aint fucking going back Yes we can try a "Cataclysm" ..It may go for a little while. But in the end we are all doomed. The lifestyle we lived is gone and I dont fucking know whats coming next. For some of us. When the dust has settled. Heaven on Earth. For majority, Hell on earth.
Landon Reed
Funnier, she got a bunch of people to donate to a gofundme to help her get to billionaire status.
Adrian Lewis
Boo boo. Fuck extroverts. Die in a fire.
Josiah Harris
If you're talking about growing up a teen, they were better times. Myspace (like reality tv) wasn't taken seriously. It was something you did because it was inherently stupid and wacky.
Compare that to now. An average white collar working person will feel compelled to write 10 paragraph posts on the shooting of George Floyd and the deeper meaning for our country. Or the teen girls filming their parents saying something mildly racist so they can go viral on tiktok
Samuel Baker
I unironically miss the time when a) there was less stuff to consume on the web and b) you had to do it at a desktop computer, because that meant that there was an escape. You could do what you wanted to do and then walk away to do something else. Don't get me wrong, I like mobile phones and I use them to do things that I would do at my computer before, but I use it less than my peers, because I noticed the effect it was having on my life. It's a real shame that we can't unplug these days.
In that same vein, speaking of "content", I think it applies to all media. There used to be less of it, and you also usually had to be in a specific place to consume it (on your couch in front of the TV, at the movie theater, at you desk in front of the computer, etc.), so you could get away from it, and unless it was the reason you got together with someone, it just wasn't there and you could actually socialize with people. Even if you have considerate friends and family who don't stare at their phone the whole time you're together, they'll still occasionally whip it out. The "content" people are wasting their time on is so vapid, on top of it all.
Myspace was an entirely different animal, but maybe it's just because people weren't terminally online yet.
