Could humanity actually be brought closer together by social medias, rather than drifting farther apart?
This question came to me as the result of an interesting experience I had this morning. Tried to get in to Face Book and it wasn’t working. So I googled Face Book Outages, and was amazed and kind of tickled by what I saw. People all over the world, wigging out about Face Book being down. Everyone, regardless of nationality, religious faith, race, or politics, was focused on one thing – No Face Book? WTF?
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There was a Rabbi in Northern Israel, people in New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Viet Nam, and Uganda, and all over the US, pissed off big time about the outage. No explanation from the powers that be as to why, just people complaining about FB and Twitter going down. And of course a few conspiracy theories were floated, and not even by Americans. A world and humanity united in our common inconvenience. Just thought that was really interesting.
The possibility was there in the beginning – But vanished forever as soon as it was commercialized by for profit business interests.
We can’t be brought closer together as closely packed as we are now. What difference can some “social media” make??
NO! We’re hopeless!
That’s what I like about you @kritiper. The Eternal Optimist. From what I saw this morning, my spirits were lifted. People all over the world, complaining about one issue, and one issue only. No Face Book. Other than that, no so much as one unpleasant word directed at any one, from anyone – other that at Face Book.
We always have the opportunity to bang together to become something great. Some people just don’t want to because it threatens their ego.
An outage on Facebook is one thing but if people came together on a more meaningful issue like covid vaccine distribution in the Third World I would be more impressed.
I’m friends with many people I don’t know in person, so yes, I think that’s true. Especially during Covid while we are all a bit more at home and reclusive.
It already has been doing that. It just also does many other things.
As for Facebook, well, I think eventually people will out-grow their behavior of flocking to a very limited number of huge evil corporate social platforms, and huge evil corporations won’t be able to buy all the alternatives. It just takes more widespread awareness of how evil the huge evil corporate platforms are. And more people developing (and other people finding and using) alternatives.
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