History Quotes / FaceBook

-->-- '''[[http://jezebel.com/twitter-is-ruining-love-and-facebook-is-ruining-your-li-1560993904 Erin Gloria Ryan]]''', ''Jezebel''

-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/05/shiny-happy-people-great-waldo-search.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->The weirdest thing about getting a death threat from a male body builder-slash-stripper on Facebook is when you click on his profile and see that you have one mutual friend, and then having to hit your friend up and say, ‘Hey man, can you tell your buddy to stop saying he’s going to murder me?

->There’s a lesson in that, too. What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there’s the real danger.

->It's kind of like if the pictures in your high school yearbook came alive and went bald and said sorry.

->One's first year of college is informally agreed upon to be the time when people who aren't good at meeting people learn how to do that. The whole point of leaving home is to develop a real personality by making as many nonlethal mistakes as your body can handle as quickly as possible...Graduating classes from here on out will be full of people who learned how to socialize online and will act the same way in real life. HPLovecraft doesn't have words for how scary that is...Skynet won't have to invent roving killbots to finish off the species. They just have to wait and we'll forget how to breed. Or read potential mate's profiles and decide we don't want to.

->A pair of new studies out this week indicate that Facebook makes people feel terrible about themselves and too much {{Twitter}} can lead to breakups. Is the internet a series of tubes that does nothing but suck all of the joy out of people's lives? ''Probably''.

->I'm as guilty as the rest of you here, using it primarily to refashion my own sense of self-loathing and political anger into bon mots to see if I can bum a few precious 'likes' from my friends.\\\
How the fuck did we get here? What diseased aspect of our childhood left us confusing clicking on a few pixels arranged in the shape of a human thumb with meaningful social contact? Where did we, the Nintendo generation, go wrong? How did we learn this absurd excuse for behavior?

->Even as someone who spends about 99% of his life on the internet, I can't spend more than 5 minutes a day on Facebook, or otherwise, I wanna go on a fucking killing spree.

->''"There’s a lesson in that, too. What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there’s the real danger."''

->''"It's kind of like if the pictures in your high school yearbook came alive and went bald and said sorry."''\\
-- '''Téodor''', ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}''

->''"One's first year of college is informally agreed upon to be the time when people who aren't good at meeting people learn how to do that. The whole point of leaving home is to develop a real personality by making as many nonlethal mistakes as your body can handle as quickly as possible...Graduating classes from here on out will be full of people who learned how to socialize online and will act the same way in real life. HPLovecraft doesn't have words for how scary that is...Skynet won't have to invent roving killbots to finish off the species. They just have to wait and we'll forget how to breed. Or read potential mate's profiles and decide we don't want to."''\\
--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-scientific-reasons-social-networks-are-bad-society_p2/ "6 Scientific Reasons Social networks Are Bad For Society"]]

->''"A pair of new studies out this week indicate that Facebook makes people feel terrible about themselves and too much {{Twitter}} can lead to breakups. Is the internet a series of tubes that does nothing but suck all of the joy out of people's lives? ''Probably''."''\\
-- '''[[http://jezebel.com/twitter-is-ruining-love-and-facebook-is-ruining-your-li-1560993904 Erin Gloria Ryan]]''', ''Jezebel''

->''"I worked at a bunch of ad agencies when I was in my 20s, and if you've ever worked at an ad agency, you know that the most important product that an ad agency sells is itself. Every agency I worked at spared no expense when it came to building websites and paying award submission fees and producing awesome business cards... Thanks to social media, everyone can have a public face now, and that public face has to be managed. I have a public face. I have a {{Twitter}} feed and I sit there trying to think of clever shit that will make me look AWESOME because making myself look awesome presumably leads me to riches and yachts and brony parties. And if that part of your life grows large enough, pretty much [[BecomingTheMask everything you do is for performance]], and your humanity ends up dissolving in the process."''
-->--'''Drew Macgary''', [[http://deadspin.com/everything-is-public-relations-now-1633071050 "Everything is Public Relations Now"]]

->''"Web 2.0 has considerably dumbed down discourse making anything longer than 140 characters 'tl;dr'...What it means in practical terms is that corporations like Amazon.com and Facebook don't have to pay anyone to create most of their content, instead, you, the sucker with too much time on your hands create it for them. You don't even get paid for it. These corporations then add insult to injury by allowing anyone to comment on what you wrote -- which tends to bring out the worst sort of [[{{Troll}} anonymous sniping and character assassination]] -- and by using the content you generated to accumulate buttloads of personal information about your interests and target you with specific advertising."''\\
--'''RationalWiki'''

->''"I'm as guilty as the rest of you here, using it primarily to refashion my own sense of self-loathing and political anger into bon mots to see if I can bum a few precious 'likes' from my friends.\\\
How the fuck did we get here? What diseased aspect of our childhood left us confusing clicking on a few pixels arranged in the shape of a human thumb with meaningful social contact? Where did we, the Nintendo generation, go wrong? How did we learn this absurd excuse for behavior?"''\\
--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/05/shiny-happy-people-great-waldo-search.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"Even as someone who spends about 99% of his life on the internet, I can't spend more than 5 minutes a day on Facebook, or otherwise, I wanna go on a fucking killing spree."''

-->--'''Siona''', ''[[{{Literature/HereticsOfDune]]''

-->--'''Siona''', ''[[{{Literature/Dune}} Heretics of Dune]]''

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->''"This is a problem much bigger than Facebook. It reminded me of what can go wrong in society, and why we now often talk at each other instead of to each other. We set up our political and social filter bubbles and they reinforce themselves—the things we read and watch have become hyper-niche and cater to our specific interests. We go down rabbit holes of special interests until we’re lost in the queen’s garden, [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance cursing everyone above ground.]]\\\
But maybe worse than the fractious political tones my feed took on was how deeply stupid it became. I’m given the chance to like a Buzzfeed post of some guy dancing, and another that asks Which ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' Character Are You? A third Buzzfeed post informs me that 'KatyPerry’s Backup Dancer is the Mancandy You Deserve.' According to ''New York'' magazine, I am 'officially old' because Malia Obama went to Lollapalooza and {{CNN}} tells me 'Husband Explores His Man-ternal Instincts' alongside a photo of a shirtless man cupping his nipples. A cloud that looks like a penis. Stop what you’re doing and look at this baby that looks exactly like Music/JayZ. My feed was showing almost only the worst kind of tripe that all of us in the media are complicit in churning out yet should also be deeply ashamed of. [[LowestCommonDenominator Sensational garbage.]]"''\\
--'''''Wired''''', [[http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/ "I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me"]]

-->-- '''Téodor''', ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}''

But maybe worse than the fractious political tones my feed took on was how deeply stupid it became. I’m given the chance to like a Buzzfeed post of some guy dancing, and another that asks Which ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' Character Are You? A third Buzzfeed post informs me that 'KatyPerry’s Backup Dancer is the Mancandy You Deserve.' According to ''New York'' magazine, I am 'officially old' because Malia Obama went to Lollapalooza and {{CNN}} tells me 'Husband Explores His Man-ternal Instincts' alongside a photo of a shirtless man cupping his nipples. A cloud that looks like a penis. Stop what you’re doing and look at this baby that looks exactly like Music/JayZ. My feed was showing almost only the worst kind of tripe that all of us in the media are complicit in churning out yet should also be deeply ashamed of. Sensational garbage."''
-->--'''''Wired''''', [[http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/ "I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me"]]

-- '''Téodor''', ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}''

->''"Web 2.0 has considerably dumbed down discourse making anything longer than 140 characters 'tl;dr'...What it means in practical terms is that corporations like Amazon.com and Facebook don't have to pay anyone to create most of their content, instead, you, the sucker with too much time on your hands create it for them. You don't even get paid for it. These corporations then add insult to injury by allowing anyone to comment on what you wrote - which tends to bring out the worst sort of anonymous sniping and character assassination - and by using the content you generated to accumulate buttloads of personal information about your interests and target you with specific advertising."''\\

->''"Web 2.0 has considerably dumbed down discourse making anything longer than 140 characters 'tl;dr'...What it means in practical terms is that corporations like Amazon.com and Facebook don't have to pay anyone to create most of their content, instead, you, the sucker with too much time on your hands create it for them. You don't even get paid for it. These corporations then add insult to injury by allowing anyone to comment on what you wrote - which tends to bring out the worst sort of anonymous sniping and character assassination - and by using the content you generated to accumulate buttloads of personal information about your interests and target you with specific advertising."''
-->--'''RationalWiki'''

->''"This is a problem much bigger than Facebook. It reminded me of what can go wrong in society, and why we now often talk at each other instead of to each other. We set up our political and social filter bubbles and they reinforce themselves—the things we read and watch have become hyper-niche and cater to our specific interests. We go down rabbit holes of special interests until we’re lost in the queen’s garden, [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance cursing everyone above ground.]\\\

->''"One's first year of college is informally agreed upon to be the time when people who aren't good at meeting people learn how to do that. The whole point of leaving home is to develop a real personality by making as many nonlethal mistakes as your body can handle as quickly as possible...Graduating classes from here on out will be full of people who learned how to socialize online and will act the same way in real life. HPLovecraft doesn't have words for how scary that is...Skynet won't have to invent roving killbots to finish off the species. They just have to wait and we'll forget how to breed. Or read potential mate's profiles and decide we don't want to."''
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-scientific-reasons-social-networks-are-bad-society_p2/ "6 Scientific Reasons Social networks Are Bad For Society"]]

->''"The most remarkable characteristic of the Facebook people is that [[HappinessIsMandatory they've built a system without any room for negativity.]] An individual either "likes" something or moves on, either "joins" a group or "ignores" the invitation. There is no dissent, only silence. The one outlet they have to express indignation or hatred is through the comments, but even that resource is limited to the confusion of their stunted vocabulary and grammar."''\\
-- '''Soren Bowie''', ''[[{{Website/Cracked}} If Columbus Had Explored the Internet]]''

->''"H I'm as guilty as the rest of you here, using it primarily to refashion my own sense of self-loathing and political anger into bon mots to see if I can bum a few precious 'likes' from my friends.\\\

->''"Here's a question for you. Did you spend a lot of your childhood staring at a souped up television screen feeling bad about yourself?\\\
No?\\\
Me neither. Which begs the question of why Facebook has now become the most visited site on the Internet... I'm as guilty as the rest of you here, using it primarily to refashion my own sense of self-loathing and political anger into bon mots to see if I can bum a few precious 'likes' from my friends.\\\

--> ''The most remarkable characteristic of the Facebook people is that [[HappinessIsMandatory they've built a system without any room for negativity.]] An individual either "likes" something or moves on, either "joins" a group or "ignores" the invitation. There is no dissent, only silence. The one outlet they have to express indignation or hatred is through the comments, but even that resource is limited to the confusion of their stunted vocabulary and grammar.''
-->-- '''Soren Bowie''', ''[[{{Website/Cracked}} If Columbus Had Explored the Internet]]''

--> ''It's kind of like if the pictures in your high school yearbook came alive and went bald and said sorry.''
-->-- '''Téodor''', ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}''

-->-- '''Soren Bowie''', ''[[{{Website/Cracked}} If Columbus Had Explored the Internet]]''

-->-- '''Soren Bowie''', ''[[{{Cracked}} If Columbus Had Explored the Internet]]''

--> ''The most remarkable characteristic of the Facebook people is that they've built a system without any room for negativity. An individual either "likes" something or moves on, either "joins" a group or "ignores" the invitation. There is no dissent, only silence. The one outlet they have to express indignation or hatred is through the comments, but even that resource is limited to the confusion of their stunted vocabulary and grammar.''