Social Media

Social media is always changing. It's gone a long way since the days of chatrooms and emails. But, have we ever stopped to ask ourselves if it's gone in the right direction?

The idea of social media platforms such as Facebook originated from earlier platforms such as WAYN (Where are You Now?), MySpace, and Windows Lives Spaces. The idea behind these platforms was to create a personal space where a person could share their thoughts, previous moments, life events, etc...

It was meant to be a simple concept of enabling users to have a place they could express themselves, something that was not possible in chatrooms and emails. Though, is that really important in the grander scheme of things? I don't think it is, as it's only led to the rise of narcissism and the disintegration of physical social networks.

Why? Because there is no separation from this personal space and open chat anymore. One could argue that you have Facebook Groups. But, it's not the same as a chatroom style interface where you could see many people online and available to chat to. Now, you can only share and communicate with those on your friend's list. It's actually so much harder to make new connections outside of that; if you set your profile to public, it's open game for spammers, hackers and all sorts of internet rif raf.

In the Facebook Groups, you have multiple comment threads, and it's easy to lose track of what's being said. That's ok when one topic phases out and a new topic starts. But, when something becomes stale, you end up following the same dead thread and trying to navigate thousands of comments.

It seems to me that there is no real, or active communication anymore. It's just what people put out there and hope somebody can be bothered to respond to. It's created a space for lazy people to pick and choose what they want to see, as they drift on Social Media never once commenting or actively bothering to communicate with their connections; a lot of them would just ignore messages sent to them as well.

Twitter is much worse than Facebook, in that it's an open game and anybody can take what you post and use it against you. It's not a free speech platform, and it's certainly not a place you can find your own space! It's more like a mindless feed of blurts that eventually end up irrelevant and cascade down much like they do in the Facebook Groups.

It's a platform for Champagne Socialists, Leftist-Globalist, far left nut jobs, media types, and politicians; anybody else who does not fit that category are on the fringes, either irrelevant or narcissistic; though there may be some exceptions to that?

Other sites such as MeWe and Gab have tried to replicate Facebook, but in all honestly most people have just had enough of this style of anti-social media and such sites don't really gain much traction.

Though, there are some like Parlor and Gettr that have tried to replicate Twitter; ironically they ended up the same way politically as Twitter did, but on the inverse towards the right-wing and far-right; it seems that such a social media platform style is perfect for political types to cling to.

If we look back at the past for a moment, to the days of chatrooms, and the people from them, you befriended and then added them on messenger (MSN/Windows Live/Yahoo Messenger). What you had was a continuous regeneration of new connections, and some of them you even met up with in person if the conditions were right.

Back then, it was easier to befriend people and get to know them, but it was harder for them to open up and share their messenger details with you as people were usually more web-aware and selective about whom they would connect with on messenger outside of the chatrooms. It was like a personal space for people.

As these older forms of social networking started to phase out, the way of the web just jumped to the Social Media platforms we started seeing in 2005 (Almost the same as what they are today). Though, not all people immediately flocked to them, as it was a big jump from what they already had.

Ultimately, the appeal of such platforms won the people over because of the friends and family element and people of all ages could use them (as was the case with Facebook).

But, there wasn't any middle ground whatsoever, and people have just become overloaded with content and resorted to mindless content. No wonder they have no time for other people.

Finally, last year a new platform emerged called Telegram. It's a devolution in a sense from the social media platform formats we see today. It's the middle ground we should have had 16 years ago.

It basically merges the old style of the chatrooms with messenger, enabling people to form Telegram groups and talk openly with people. When a conversation phases out, people just share new content and talk about something else. You can also message your friends outside of those groups and communicate the same way you do with any messenger application.

With Telegram, you can share, links, videos, photos, voice recordings and your thoughts without fascist censorship. You can even choose to mute or turn off notifications for bothersome groups or channels. They will still be posting content that you can choose to check and read, but you can do that on your own terms.

Facebook does not have channels, and most social media platforms don't have the feeds the way Telegram does. You can mute them or turn off notifications as well. This gives you much more control over what you see, and also who comments on them.

Though, Telegram is still evolving and there are some minor issues that need to be fixed in terms of the settings. But, they are always updating and fixing things, so I just go with it in the hope they improve and don't follow the direction of their globalist creator (He is a right-wing globalist, still a globalist, but at least he is not on the left...).

Besides, there is not really that much choice anymore. Facebook is a dying platform, along with Twitter.

Another sorta social media platform is YouTube. It is narcissistic at the core, with many clickbait videos and restricted comment feeds. Though, there is a wide selection of content available to view. Not all of it is educational though.

People have started to use other types of websites for hosting their videos, due to the fascist left-wing driven censorship. I suspect that in time YouTube would also phase out and many websites will have to find alternative websites to link their content to.

Unless of course, if YouTube realise their mistakes and radically restructure their platform to re-enable free speech again?