i've become pretty convinced that it's incredibly dangerous for adolescents to have online social circles at all
social media fucks us all up but when you're still in the impressionable "uncritically absorbing your culture's values and folkways" neurological stage you should not be routinely associating with people outside your immediate physical community, period
and people who take advantage of the vulnerability of children to reprogram them as footsoldiers for a political cause should face the death penalty, they're the moral equivalent of pedophiles
social media fucks us all up but when you're still in the impressionable "uncritically absorbing your culture's values and folkways" neurological stage you should not be routinely associating with people outside your immediate physical community, period
and people who take advantage of the vulnerability of children to reprogram them as footsoldiers for a political cause should face the death penalty, they're the moral equivalent of pedophiles
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@velartrill i think it didn't hurt me, but then i was hanging out in irc and playing team fortress classic, not doing vanity stuff on myspace :) it was _cool_ if you had your own page, not something social media pleb. i knew some artsy photography girls who even did their own pages.
@bonifartius it definitely fucked me up, fortunately i have an sane older friend (who i met on twitter in the first place, now that i think of it) who pulled me out of the cult i wound up in (which was also twitter/tumblr-based).
depending on the mentality of the individual tho the effects can be vastly worse. i think the kind of people who find their way to fedi (canceldonners excepted, since they're just a cult that got here by playing follow-the-leader) are generally the kind of people who are sufficiently rational and independently-minded that, even if they get fucked up in their teenage years, they'll probably find their way back to reality eventually. facebook and twitter and such are very different populations
depending on the mentality of the individual tho the effects can be vastly worse. i think the kind of people who find their way to fedi (canceldonners excepted, since they're just a cult that got here by playing follow-the-leader) are generally the kind of people who are sufficiently rational and independently-minded that, even if they get fucked up in their teenage years, they'll probably find their way back to reality eventually. facebook and twitter and such are very different populations
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@velartrill i think how sane people are has much to do with how distributed, multimedia affine ("sharing" pictures, videos, etc.), and restricted in design a platform/protocol is. a cube of sanity, if you want ;)
