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Offline cybercoma

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Re: Facebook Culture
« on: March 05, 2021, 12:40:03 pm »
I shouldn't spend my time answering all these questions because I'm at work, but I think there's something interesting to consider for the obsolete question.

Facebook makes thoughtful commentary obsolete. Thoughtful in the sense that the medium encourages rapid snippets of information, rather than deep intensive reading and consideration. There's the other side to this as well, the medium encourages rapid-thoughtless presentation thoughts. Everyone gets the feeling that their knee-jerk reactions should be published for everyone to see. So what's obsolete here? In-depth, thoughtful study of ideas and in-depth thoughtful presentation of ideas: books, academic articles, etc. Everything is fast, easily-digestible, and inflammatory to increase engagement. Engagement boosts exposure through algorithms and we descend into an inflammatory thoughtlessness that creates division.