- Social media created an immediate soap box for everyone, and a way for unhealthy ideas to propagate quicker and more virally. It encourages vanity, inhibition, and unrealistic expectations. Then there’s the whole corporate element, where the mainstream of these platforms are truly just systems of data collection and manipulation.
- Dead internet theory coming in nicely
- The early advent of the internet had high hopes it would be used for the sharing of information. It indeed is, but the most widely used search engines are weighted to point you towards curated and questionable sources of information. This is purposeful, and often capitalistically motivated versus educational.
- There’s more, but I’m tired and didn’t expect to type all this out, so I’ll leave it for the comments.
Pro: All the world’s knowledge and information in the palm of your hand.
Con: Set up like a disorganized library, requiring a basic foundation of intelligence, education, wisdom, and skepticism to know how to find and then parse good info from bad.
Pro: Has facilitated sharing of vital knowledge between experts and laymen.
Con: Has allowed idiots, statistically few and far between scattered across the world, to unionize.