In other words,
Web 2.0 was a mistake.
I never understood what 2.0 meant to people. When I think of "Web 2.0" is higher security when it comes to coding. Instead it became "Social Media." Ya know, the Facebooks of the world. MySpace was the "birth" of Social Media, but Facebook was the next stepping stone. However what happened is Twitter exploit what Facebook spawned. Twitter was supposed to be a messaging "app." But, what happened next is the co-C.E.O. wanted a different future: A digital Stalin future, where the left would live.
It's the hellish crossover between:
- people filling out their sidebar bios like it's the Census with their full name, exact age, gender, race, what might as well be citizenship status, their sexuality, their different triggers, mental health divergences, how many people are in their family and in their house at any given day, and just generally having no sense or concept of privacy in an age where doxxing someone and connecting their online persona to their real-life self to ruin them for "wrongthink" is as easy as making coffee in the morning,
The concept was innocent. The problem isn't really the platform. The problem was the platform's C.E.O. I mean, Facebook allowed a analytics company to exploit the "information" that's available on the FB platform to make money. Facebook, once it got big - it was looking for money, so it got dirty. I liked the innovative ad service system.
if you were an advertiser, you tell the algorithm "I want this market." It asks you which market you want with respect to what you asked for. So, if you wanted to reach profiles with these attributes: 20 years old, from San Mateo, California. He has a girlfriend he is married to. He graduated from Stanford University, is a leftist loser who writes dumb lefty stories.
They'd come to your page or group or profile.
The algorithm has all these information, but not the way GDPR was introduced or intended as. Facebook was just collateral damage in "The Royals" system's intent to extrapolate money from. The problem is, GDPR crawled down to DMC.org, me and other entrepreneurs who deals with websites.
Twitter ain't innocent in this chaos. At first Twitter was a legitimate Social Media website. It was designed with mobile phones from the start. It was only a SMS website until Twitter came into venture capital. It became a website to have some kind of freedom of speech.
Both was, is intended for something else, but countries all around the world want to interfere in our lives in a way that hurts us.
- people not having a filter or any sense of politeness because they're not used to getting punched in the mouth for talking smack and they're used to treating every site like 4chan/the wild wild west/the badlands/generally lawless places where they can get away with anything, a.k.a. they've never experienced consequences in their life and aren't about to start now, bonus points if they're empowered by the talking heads on TV or in that same socmed platform
This has been around since Forums came around, but that doesn't dissolve that there are assholes in the world. Most people on Twitter don't care that their actions affect your challenges
- people getting too comfortable at the interconnectedness of the internet and lack of filter and cheap clout via likes/shares, giving them the false impression that they know enough about someone to smack talk at them, make jokes in bad taste, or demand increasingly invasive information from the people they talk to, or even that they know anything about that individual's personality off the net, see also: parasocial relationships
Twitter's algorithm encourages this behavior around the time Trump was on the campaign trail. I'm not blaming Trump on this, but Twitter got worse around 2013/4. This is when Twitter became a place where the left destroys people's minds on how everything is.
I just never understood at the time. Isn't the point of creating a company - to make money? Why did they decide to go hard left? Like I said before, the co-C.E.O, Jack Dorsey's right-hand man in Twitter's executive team wanted an echochamber for their people, their ideologies. I never saw Jack Dorsey as the guy that wanted this nonsense. Well, then wasn't he left to clean up the mess after the co-C.E.O left the company? Well, based on the way the mod team continues to moderate, then he's the target now. The U.S. government railed against Dorsey.
- people who literally do not like to think, in the least, because they let their feeds do the thinking for them and trust that anything that was reblogged, retweeted, or shared by their friends automatically passes the sniff test even if it's a decade-old article with nonsense that was debunked by Snopes 12 different times, because time is a flat circle and the same people who made fun of their own parents and grandparents for being out-of-touch chainmail-spreading boomers this close to falling for a Nigerian Prince scam are the exact same people that believe children are in danger of eating Tide pods and busy spreading the "share/like/retweet this or your mom will die!!!" posts
being locked into websites that no longer have an interest in competently moderating the content that goes into their sites, since proper moderation and culling of low-quality content and misinformation effectively slows down "engagement", where allowing drama and people to get nasty at each other over the internet means things get posted more often, and that's more data for them to harvest in order to bombard their users with more intrusive junk. people are on Twitter and Facebook looking for things to get mad at and if they don't have a target, they'll make one up just to be upset because being angry is like crack now.
I'll come around to this convo later, but I am buzzed right now.
