Thumbs-ups are nice, friendly, supportive. All good things, and I'll probably use them too. My point is that (on the twitbooks), they satisfy ego or commercial gain. My ego feels the need for validation, and while I recognise it, I don't like it. I should write my opinions regardless of popularity.
3 years ago
tempo: pretty much that, and more. tskaalgard: you're right that I should be resilient, but this is gaming base emotions. We shouldn't have to guard against emotional abuse in the first place. 'Likes' here are cargo culting. They bring nothing of value. · 3 years ago
Without critical people who are willing to question that, most online communities die as people turn against each other, attached to what they profiles became, defending that identity no matter the cost, completely forgetting about the actual people they were connecting with in the first place. So relationships, people and networks become disposable, you just wait for it go bad, throw away like any other product and then call that "the way it is". · 3 years ago
I really like the point you brought up. The bloatweb at this stage is a social engineering project that gives us such crumbles and irrelevant content in exchange for a sense of importance. Station could too become something like that, only surface-level messages that appear to create a precious identity because you get to keep the numbers associated to you. But others get the scarcity and that's how lots of fucked up social dynamics play out. · 3 years ago