2k20 worst social media platform (facebook, twitter, instagram)

We can’t bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what we already have.

— The Secret (@thesecret) January 25, 2020

Where does hatred come into the equation?

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Hatred is a bit strong. More like mixed feelings as less people post here these days..although there is something to be said for quieter mode ilx

I'm almost 100% certain that has absolutely no bearing on what people on ILX think about Twitter! Maybe other people's brains work differently to mine though.

Funnily enough, I was just looking at Facebook and noticed that one of my friends was talking to one of his (FB) friends, who happened to be Graham Lewis of Wire, who seems to post on FB all the time - he's the right age group apparently. Should I hate, or have mixed feelings about, Facebook now for keeping Graham Lewis (and Colin Newman, he's on there too) from posting on ILX?

xxxxyyyy you were baiting me to write something here so that you could laugh at me, but I don't want to be bullied. I'm happy this place isn't like twitter, that's why I post here and not there. I came and have stayed here because it was a thoughtful place (and when I stay on ILM it still is)

My experience is that people who stick close to bullies are cowards and enablers who live in fear of eventually being targeted themselves. People who participate in that toxic social dynamic, both bullies and enablers, are not well or happy people.

― beard papa, Saturday, January 25, 2020 7:11 AM

I always wonder why those people take a risk like that because they must know that bullies and enablers are likely to get shown for what they are eventually. Especially bullies who like to present themselves as the cutting edge of social justice.

That's ok Euler. Post as you want, you do you.

Twitter is the terriblest and people who like it are part of the problem

― juntos pedemos (Euler), Sunday, 19 January 2020

Can you expand on this? For the lolz

― xyzzzz__

PEOPLE YOU CAN USE TECHNOLOGY TO PRETEND ALL OF THE TERRIBLE STUFF THAT IS MAKING LIFE IN 2020 UNBEARABLE DOESN'T EXIST

― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy)

twitter most actively harmful to my mental health

reddit the worst for the internet in general in terms of how it subsumed any actually interesting unique little corner of the internet. not to mention the actual interface is almost unusable, the comment threading makes no sense at all. forums are/were much better. reddit’s worst offense though is that it’s insanely boring

facebook the most concretely toxic in terms of real world effects

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

gotta go w Facebook. outside of Fox I suspect it’s had the biggest influence on turning aging whites’ brains into spoiled mayonnaise

yeah agree

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

41strange got suspended?! wtf

Funnily enough, I was just looking at Facebook and noticed that one of my friends was talking to one of his (FB) friends, who happened to be Graham Lewis of Wire, who seems to post on FB all the time - he's the right age group apparently. Should I hate, or have mixed feelings about, Facebook now for keeping Graham Lewis (and Colin Newman, he's on there too) from posting on ILX?

Maybe its a perception of being way more public here? Which would be right? One can filter and lock and so on on FB at least. I mean I spent 6 months talking on the regular to Ian Crause a few years back on FB/email, but he almost never showed up here.

I haven't updated WhatsApp in ages, and now I've got a new phone so everything's installing again, and it's now 'WhatsApp Messenger' 'from Facebook' - was it always like this and/or has anything changed? Old news articles say Facebook wants to merge WhatsApp & FB Messenger, and I hate FB Messenger with the passion of a thousand firey suns, so would like to know before I install WA if it's gone to shit.

I'm getting tired of seeing people I like on twitter seeming to seriously advocate murder and other extremely violent solutions. Most of the time I imagine they were just extremely angry and wouldn't stick to it if you asked about it seriously but then there's all these "not even joking" tweets. For fucks sake.

Losing respect for almost everyone but still need to get along.

Moving the Overton on choppy bois might be the only good sociological effect of twitter.

otm

Say what you like about Instagram, at least no-one's commandeered it to encourage genocide (unless you're counting Fyre Festival).

I should maybe check more often if these people delete those tweets later on, but I never see anyone apologize.

Also: massive sweeping statements about groups of people that have nothing to do with any serious thinking about privilege.

Very few people seem to have learned that "it's just a joke" shouldn't fly anymore.

people shouldn't joke about having tory scum executed like vermin, it's a serious business is liquidating scum of the earth!

liquidate power, not voters tbh

I've said "they probably don't mean that and are probably nice" too many times for people in my social circles. Benefit of the doubt is important but I don't know why I gave it to strangers so often.

have concluded social media was invented by harry harlow

my mum insists on referring to video conference calls, to which she has recently been exposed by me and my brothers, as social media. i mean i can see the logic, but “i know people complain about social media but i think it’s *wonderful*” takes some unpicking.

Why would anyone apologize for joking (“joking”) about guillotining billionaires?

Too much violent fantasies give a sense that any real change is hopeless and we're reduced to childishness that won't gain us any advantage, might turn lots of people away. Comes across creepy too. Joking about executing the royal family might have been funny for a moment but when it persists it's just sounds the joker has a serious problem.

I'm someone who regularly fantasizes about taking a hot bath affixed to the top of the world's slowest steamroller, everyone I dislike is tied down in front of the steamroller and I can listen to the music of them being turned to mush and the screams of the hundreds who are ahead.
But I try not to and I know it's not good for me.

...

I also have an unhealthy fixation with kicking Family Guy fans out windows and shutting down Marvel and DC and jerking off while everyone affected cries. These are the less political ones.

twitter is bad now that everyones on it 24/7

I'm someone who regularly fantasizes about taking a hot bath affixed to the top of the world's slowest steamroller, everyone I dislike is tied down in front of the steamroller and I can listen to the music of them being turned to mush and the screams of the hundreds who are ahead.

that sounds like a 'you' problem rather than something afflicting the person with a guillotine avatar

I'm sure there's all sorts of violent fantasies for all sorts of angry people.

milo you’re almost as much of an asshole as me, kudos

ugh I regret that sorry.

Most people don’t have extremely detailed violent fantasies, even people who joke about putting Jeff Bezos’s head on a pike outside the city gates.

online: guillotines!! eat the rich!
offline: plain cheeseburger no onions please. afraid to pee in the shower

— @rogerclark (@rogerclark) December 19, 2017

Peeing in the shower does not feel good, the lack of contrast between my urine and the water is unsettling.

I'll say it again: it's amazing how poor twitter and instagram are for browsing. I'm irritated within a short time of being there.

great revive

ffs

The pictures on the instagram dashboard are way too big and the list of people you follow is this silly little list when a whole page would have worked better.

do you pee in the shower on desktop, or mobile?

sorry, i meant browse ig and twitter

instagram desktop is useless, it seems fine on a phone

I also used it on a tablet (which uses mobile mode) and I didn't like it but maybe it's great on an actual phone.

one of the worst things now is people who performatively quit facebook for political or privacy reasons then remain on instagram (think emoji)

then proceed to shit up instagram with screenshots of the same shit they used to post on facebook on their notes app

and none of them seem to have any awareness that instagram is owned by facebook

yep!

otm but also

one of the worst things now is people who performatively quit facebook for political or privacy reasons then remain on instagram (think emoji)

then proceed to shit up instagram with screenshots of the same shit they used to post on facebook on their notes app

and none of them seem to have any awareness that instagram is owned by facebook

...And then rejoin soon after.

I deactivated my Facebook account July 1. Should I go back August 1?

— burning ambulance (@burn_amb) July 27, 2020

Instagram “Reels” is pretty bleak. If i wanted a subscription to maxim magazine i would have ordered one back when that still existed.

it still does: https://www.simplecirc.com/subscribe/maxim/I9AA01

sincerely the worst thing ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/O1HRvfVFSK

— jack wagner (@jackdwagner) September 6, 2020