Mean I get the idea, but when you can filter crap for facts then it still helps and gives you lots of info, like how to set up a new router, change a filter (take your pick of what).Just don’t go down the opinion stuff.
I assume I’m too old and just don’t see half the crap others see cause they realize I’m old and ornary like an alligator, imagine that gives people an idea of age heh.
when you can filter crap for facts then it still helps and gives you lots of info
The Internet never gave you this ability. It allowed you to silo yourself off from other media and exist in an echo chamber.
In certain instances of media panic (post-9/11 Muslim hysteria, immigration hysteria, fad diet hysteria) you can maintain your sense of sanity by conversing with people who aren’t also drowning in manufactured consent.
But you could still find plenty of crap in these communities. Whether it was liberalist blindness to an increasingly reactionary public opinion or more niche hysterias rearing up in place of mainstream hysterics (TikTok people panicking over micro plastics while the news was wiping the general public up over transgender athletes), you still had plenty of crap and no real filter for it.
The modern Internet isn’t different in function nearly so much as it is in content. The floodgates opened and all the Late Night Crime Blotter / FOX News Two Minute Hate / Dumb Sports Guy Opinion came crashing through.
Mean I get the idea, but when you can filter crap for facts then it still helps and gives you lots of info, like how to set up a new router, change a filter (take your pick of what).Just don’t go down the opinion stuff.
I assume I’m too old and just don’t see half the crap others see cause they realize I’m old and ornary like an alligator, imagine that gives people an idea of age heh.
The Internet never gave you this ability. It allowed you to silo yourself off from other media and exist in an echo chamber.
In certain instances of media panic (post-9/11 Muslim hysteria, immigration hysteria, fad diet hysteria) you can maintain your sense of sanity by conversing with people who aren’t also drowning in manufactured consent.
But you could still find plenty of crap in these communities. Whether it was liberalist blindness to an increasingly reactionary public opinion or more niche hysterias rearing up in place of mainstream hysterics (TikTok people panicking over micro plastics while the news was wiping the general public up over transgender athletes), you still had plenty of crap and no real filter for it.
The modern Internet isn’t different in function nearly so much as it is in content. The floodgates opened and all the Late Night Crime Blotter / FOX News Two Minute Hate / Dumb Sports Guy Opinion came crashing through.