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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 51 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.

Bruh, technology is causing the void. People are increasingly using technology to replace human interaction, rather than to cultivate it.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 28 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Social media was a mistake.

And yes, I'm aware of the irony as I use social media to say so. I do not apologize.

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 6 points 5 months ago

It was all about "fun" in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.

Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that "their" politics "won" on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.

So, it's all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.

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