Strange modern phenomenons

[RageBurner]

What are some of the odd things that affect society nowadays that you find difficult to logically understand or justify?

For me, what comes to mind most strongly is how the internet created this odd tendency of people wanting to desperately share any and all kinds of minutia that pertain their lives.

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation... but it still baffles my mind that a human being would so easily open up details about themselves to countless unknowns literally across the globe.

I'm probably old fashioned and shut in by nature, but yeah.

 

[Clippy]

This thread is just asking to turn into a political battlefield, isn't it?

I'll just dip my toes a little and say feminism in developed countries. Don't get me wrong, there was a time feminism was needed. Those days are long gone. All we get now is insufferable screeching from people who have had everything in their lives handed to them on a silver platter yet they still prattle on and on about how oppressed and victimized they are. And inexplicably, there are people out there who fall for those fables hook, line and sinker.

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation...

Maybe that's it. I really wish we stopped doing that and focused on real issues.

 

[RageBurner]

I'll just note that if this derrails, you guys can feel free to let me know and I'll just excise the thread completely. It is not my intention to turn this into politics or side taking, it's an honest question.

 

[Jeanfranc]

I don't really get social media honestly: I get why they exists on the business side of things but I don't get why people keep using them.
They always said to me that sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit connect people but is that really the case? Those sites actively discourage you from interacting with strangers online and generally have algorithms that hide all unpopular posts, thus creating ecochambers.

Forums and Image boards are the only actual places where you really can speak to people online.

 

[RageBurner]

I don't really get social media honestly: I get why they exists on the business side of things but I don't get why people keep using them.
They always said to me that sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit connect people but is that really the case? Those sites actively discourage you from interacting with strangers online and generally have algorithms that hide all unpopular posts, thus creating ecochambers.

Forums and Image boards are the only actual places where you really can speak to people online.

You're right, all it creates is tribalism, in truth, and makes it into a business seeking profit. Unless it's a place with awesome people, like here!

 

[Cu-Neo]

People who are assholes to other people because they think they are better: We are all humans. When we get to certain age we die, even we share some patterns in our behaviour so I don't understand why some people spread hate to share their "superiority" when in reality we all are only humans. The moment you die that superiority is useless and probably you are going to be remember as an asshole. That's why it's better to treat someone as you want to be treated. Just as Luke said "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise"

 

[Gorse]

This thread is just asking to turn into a political battlefield, isn't it?

Hey, Clippy: Not only do I disagree with your politics — I think you’re a bad person for having them! What are you… some kind of MONSTER!?

 

[RageBurner]

People who are assholes to other people because they think they are better: We are all humans. When we get to certain age we die, even we share some patterns in our behaviour so I don't understand why some people spread hate to share their "superiority" when in reality we all are only humans. The moment you die that superiority is useless and probably you are going to be remember as an asshole. That's why it's better to treat someone as you want to be treated. Just as Luke said "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise"

So true, our time is limited, and it's best spent cooperating and doing more than we could achieve alone.

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Hey, Clippy: Not only do I disagree with your politics — I think you’re a bad person for having them! What are you… some kind of MONSTER!?

LOL

 

[Clippy]

They always said to me that sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit connect people but is that really the case?

This may have been the intent early on. Remember that social media began their existence about 20 years ago, quite a while before everything became centralized and beholden to political correctness. However, even if that's the case I'd argue social media were only ever good for connecting you to people you already knew but couldn't meet physically for whatever reason. Your computer illiterate grandma who wouldn't be able to wrap her head around IRC for example.

Another thing is that the Internet in general was a far more welcoming place and an escape from reality before normies flooded it. I have called it the first safe space out there before and I stand by that statement.

 

[Stingy Perry]

Strange modern phenomena like you mean some people go ‘woke’ and believe the lies they tell are actual facts. Here’s another one film producers back then admits and apologizes if they make a bad movie but it’s the audience’s for not watching their garbage so called movie.

 

[Jeanfranc]

This may have been the intent early on. Remember that social media began their existence about 20 years ago, quite a while before everything became centralized and beholden to political correctness. However, even if that's the case I'd argue social media were only ever good for connecting you to people you already knew but couldn't meet physically for whatever reason.

It was always about connecting poeple who knew each other, never strangers. Modern social media are all somewhat based on Facebook, which was initially created as mean to connect students from Harvard. It was never meant to work on an international scale. No wonder most poeple only follow their friends and e-celebs, never strangers.

Another thing is that the Internet in general was a far more welcoming place and an escape from reality before normies flooded it. I have called it the first safe space out there before and I stand by that statement.

It all began when smartphones became a thing: not all people own a pc but everyone owns a phone, and when those started to get decent internet access, normies and children flooded online spaces. This naturally attracted big companies, advertisers and the like, throw in some politics into the mix to control the masses and pit them against each other, and you get the hellscape we have today

 

[Stookymalarkey]

It's people believing everything they read on the internet despite most of the places where people post having no oversight. What happened to people being skeptical about things?

 

[Clippy]

It's people believing everything they read on the internet despite most of the places where people post having no oversight. What happened to people being skeptical about things?

People have always been like that, it's just that before they could broadcast their stupidity to the world only their family and friends knew how stupid they were.

 

[RageBurner]

It's people believing everything they read on the internet despite most of the places where people post having no oversight. What happened to people being skeptical about things?

The meaning of this shifted greatly. Instead of it meaning "I reasonably doubt what is said and will do proper research to form a well leveraged opinion.", nowadays it means "I'll reflexively disregard everything you say test doesn't align with my worldview. "

 

[Stingy Perry]

For the first time in my life I’m struggling my pronoun’s while talking with ‘other’ people.

 

[Ikagura]

For the first time in my life I’m struggling my pronoun’s while talking with ‘other’ people.

Well using they as singular is at least helpful and goes along with everything.

 

[afureru]

Personally, it's people being angry at each other rather than things that actively affect their livelihoods. I'm not going to pretend this is some "left vs right" sort of thing (I've been called bleeding heart lib many times before, if that helps), because whenever it seems like society finally recognizes what is actually going to progress the world forward when the chips are down against people that don't give a shit about them, suddenly they're back to conspiracies about transgender people and putting trust in said people that don't give a shit about them to fix the economy by targeting it entirely towards the rich 1%. It's a hamster wheel of pure reactionary slop that feels unending and exhausting.

 

[ATenderLad]

Wildly destructive gender reveal baby showers. I'm not saying it's the most common thing in the world, but how are there so many examples?!

I'll just dip my toes a little and say feminism in developed countries. Don't get me wrong, there was a time feminism was needed. Those days are long gone. All we get now is insufferable screeching from people who have had everything in their lives handed to them on a silver platter yet they still prattle on and on about how oppressed and victimized they are. And inexplicably, there are people out there who fall for those fables hook, line and sinker.

Europe sounds cool man, here you can't make choices about your body without the government deciding they know better. I'm not ready to call it Mission Accomplished on feminism just yet.

People have always been like that, it's just that before they could broadcast their stupidity to the world only their family and friends knew how stupid they were.

That's pretty much right on the money though.

Personally, it's people being angry at each other rather than things that actively affect their livelihoods. I'm not going to pretend this is some "left vs right" sort of thing (I've been called bleeding heart lib many times before, if that helps), because whenever it seems like society finally recognizes what is actually going to progress the world forward when the chips are down against people that don't give a shit about them, suddenly they're back to conspiracies about transgender people and putting trust in said people that don't give a shit about them to fix the economy by targeting it entirely towards the rich 1%. It's a hamster wheel of pure reactionary slop that feels unending and exhausting.

It definitely feels crazy to see a flood of support for banning/burning books, hand in hand with trusting that the richest people in the world have everyone's best interests at heart.

 

[demons-souls]

I find it fascinating that me and some random dude in a random corner of the world can look at a picture like this and find it peak humor:

Although, I guess, some things can be universally comedic (slapstick comedy, for example), humor is generally subjective and highly dependent on time, place and context. The internet, however, made it possible for two different persons on two totally different corners of the world, with substantially different cultures, to find a very specific kind of humor funny.

 

[Waffles]

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation... but it still baffles my mind that a human being would so easily open up details about themselves to countless unknowns literally across the globe.

It gets worse... so much worse.

Just the other day I had a girl walk up to me and hand me her phone so I could take her pictures posing against a water fountain in a really exaggerated and magazine cover-like fashion.

She was lucky I wasn't a criminal or a perv... or even that I just didn't run off with her phone.

 

[Gorse]

Just the other day I had a girl walk up to me and hand me her phone so I could take her pictures posing against a water fountain in a really exaggerated and magazine cover-like fashion.

The amount of people who ask me to do this is insane. Seriously, folks… why do I have to take time out of my life for your Instagram account!?

 

[Waffles]

The amount of people who ask me to do this is insane. Seriously, folks… why do I have to take time out of my life for your Instagram account!?

Right. It's actually really rude... and dangerous.

I usually ignore or pretend I don't speak the language.

 

[ATenderLad]

It gets worse... so much worse.

Just the other day I had a girl walk up to me and hand me her phone so I could take her pictures posing against a water fountain in a really exaggerated and magazine cover-like fashion.

She was lucky I wasn't a criminal or a perv... or even that I just didn't run off with her phone.

I wish this didn't bother me so much, but every time a tiny old couple on vacation asks me to take their pictures I my brain screams "You're getting a call!" and "Fake a heart attack!". I try to both at the same time in a panic, looks like the weirdest 1-800 CallATT commercial.

 

[Yousef]

What are some of the odd things that affect society nowadays that you find difficult to logically understand or justify?

For me, what comes to mind most strongly is how the internet created this odd tendency of people wanting to desperately share any and all kinds of minutia that pertain their lives.

I can sort of understand WHY it happens: people want attention, views, validation... but it still baffles my mind that a human being would so easily open up details about themselves to countless unknowns literally across the globe.

I'm probably old fashioned and shut in by nature, but yeah.

I see what you mean by that. Although I tend to less see it as a privacy thing and more bribe socially awkward which is a tad different.

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this is the main problem with present day society imo

I don’t either. Gross evolution of pampadours.

 

[UrielSol]

The need to buy shine new things even if you got an already working thingies (be cellphones, microwave, cars, etc) or they inability to send them (withing reason) to repair if they broke.