flutteringwow
She called me baby, like an old romantic
He just needs to fit an LPS and all will be fine.
Social media crash
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simon g
Older, wiser but no longer retired
Social media is the primary cause of the collapse of the fabric of society. I've been saying that for well over 10 years now. It ruins children's lives, causes untold stress and family tensions, allows the spread of hate and ignorance and encourages stupid people to be even more stupid. I concede that there are some benefits, but these are inconsequential in comparison to the enormous harm done.
Fatmarley
"It appears my intelligence circuits have melted"
Yes.
I'm sure it's fine for most people, but if you have mental health issues it can ruin your life.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
I really can’t stand FB now. It’s trained people to project some kind of false self/my perfect life BS to the world.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
Cheese
Bitter lover
I guess this is down to how you use the networks. Most of us are fiftysomethings or older, in our lives we have all learned by now how beneficial it can be to just shut up when the situation requires it. This applies to social media too.
The Whatsapp group we have created for us five siblings + partners has saved us a lot of trouble when organizing all sorts of things around the death of our parents (house, nursing home, inheritance, etc.), it really was a blessing. Everyone got the same information at the same time, questions that arose were answered immediately. Some phone calls were made behind our backs of course, but to little negative effect in the end. Without whatsapp, phone calls of all sorts would have been endless for years, kind of like our parents had to do back then. Not everything was good in the 'good old days'.
It wasn't hacked.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Wouldn't go as far as 'primary' but otherwise I empathise with you as long as you don't include pfm! I don't even have a smartphone so all these time-consuming and largely irrelevant interchanges on F.B. etc. by my daughters et al seem utterly pointless and in some cases amongst the young and vulnerable, negative. However, what do I know? There HAS to be some positive aspects to users. Worries me that all our lives now depend upon digital records rather than pen and paper which I still use for my own records; vast improvement on chisel and stone or even papyrus !
Tony L
Administrator
Fascinating outage and has to be a lesson to large corporations not to put all their eggs in one basket when it comes to routing, DNS etc. I’m astonished there was a single point of fail for all related companies globally.
As to the social media etc I personally couldn’t comprehend a return to the pre-internet dark ages. The whole thing has revolutionised our lives, our work, our ability to freely share and access information. Spectacularly empowering. The past looks so primitive now. An intellectual apartheid.
PS Not suggesting Facebook is perfect, obviously, just describing the global systemic change it is a small part of.
As to the social media etc I personally couldn’t comprehend a return to the pre-internet dark ages. The whole thing has revolutionised our lives, our work, our ability to freely share and access information. Spectacularly empowering. The past looks so primitive now. An intellectual apartheid.
PS Not suggesting Facebook is perfect, obviously, just describing the global systemic change it is a small part of.
andyoz
pfm Member
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
On paper.
Le Baron
Unbiased advice at reasonable rates
The web is a classic double-edged blade. There's got to be some line drawn between the benefits of the web and the direction a lot of social media has taken in the last 10-15 years or so, and a lot of web content generally.
I'm guessing most here caught onto the web quite early? I first had some access to it in 1993 and there wasn't much to be had apart from some interesting open websites all in plain HTML, from universities and the like. Around 1998/1999 it seemed to be at a good point with regard to information/research content. Then after 2002 went in another direction with all that heavy advertising-based content in exchange for the ability to waffle into a vortex (like I'm doing now!). Remember 'Yahoo Answers'? What a hellhole that was.
There are some great things online, but I don't think Facebook is one of them. It's too big and is a spying/personal information mining system. As a fun look at the apocalyptic future of the internet, have a look at the internet Archive's 'Wayforward Machine': https://archive.org/
I'm guessing most here caught onto the web quite early? I first had some access to it in 1993 and there wasn't much to be had apart from some interesting open websites all in plain HTML, from universities and the like. Around 1998/1999 it seemed to be at a good point with regard to information/research content. Then after 2002 went in another direction with all that heavy advertising-based content in exchange for the ability to waffle into a vortex (like I'm doing now!). Remember 'Yahoo Answers'? What a hellhole that was.
There are some great things online, but I don't think Facebook is one of them. It's too big and is a spying/personal information mining system. As a fun look at the apocalyptic future of the internet, have a look at the internet Archive's 'Wayforward Machine': https://archive.org/