| ▲ | fnordpiglet 3 hours ago | |
No, I don’t. I remember when the internet would (it did!) and Usenet would (it did!) and irc and open source and the web (they did!) but social media was always about entertainment and (one way or another) monetization of those technologies. It’s the cancer of our collective mind and achievements. | ||
| ▲ | dotcoma 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Here you go. https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/06/08/the-twitter-devolution/ See also... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/06/evalu... And these lies, of course, were spread by the social media platforms themselves and their PR departments. | ||