Mastodawn

All we did was give stupid people faster access to other stupid people and now we act surprised when the stupidity compounds

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mossman Mar 13

@Daojoan and yet... back in 1990 I was thinking that everyone would connect and be exposed to all the *good* info/culture/ideas.

Why did all the crap get boosted when all the good was there for the taking?

It can't be coincidence that I can pinpoint the moment I thought things were suddenly heading suckward - it was when everyone wanted to join Facebook, closely followed by Google buying up a bunch of services and merging all my accounts on them.

I was heavily into internet-enabled phones before "smartphones" became a thing, and again saw my hopes dashed when everyone jumped onto WhatsApp.

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Sveinn í Felli

@mossman @Daojoan "Peak internet" was when only informed/clever people managed to make web-pages and the label "content creator" was yet to be invented as a job title (blame the MBAs).

At that time I recall the stream of late Friday [dirty]-joke faxes, spending rolls of expensive thermal paper, from the people who hadn't figured out the Internet...