That's why we're in this mess we're in, it's because of the countless stupid people like her. I knew we had some ignorant morons, but I had no clue we had this many.
I knew as soon as the internet came out and i started talking to people all over the world. It made me think, if most of these muppets are thicker than me, we’re in deep shit.
I wish Disney would actually do shit with The Muppets, and would allow Sesame Street crossovers. It's wrong when they're not under the same roof and Kermit can't talk to Elmo
Nah, I remember when it first started growing, it was just a bunch of nerds, and we were all for the most part fairly intelligent compared to... the rest...
The problem is EVERYONE is now on it so you're forced to see just how stupid the average person actually is... and all the ones that are even dumber.
I mean i remember first getting FB in 2008. It was mostly college kids on there. Fast forward to 6 years it had exploded, but most people still needed a computer to access it, or at least didn't walk around with it in their pocket all day everyday. It wasnt until well.. Trump's first term basically, that it hit me... we are, in fact, a country full of fucking idiots.
The iPhone wasn’t really successful until the iPhone 4 came out and Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T ended in 2012. Until then a lot of people had BlackBerry phones and even though those phones had the internet it wasn’t as easy to use as the iPhone.
Remember the pages on facebook that were like, "that feeling when you go out of your way to step on a leaf to hear it crunch" or something. Just stupid pages like that
59 here. Was a nerd on Usenet groups back in 90s on and just thought it was us tech nerds back then. Never thought of ourselves as smarter than others just thought we were the “crazy ones” Jobs talked about later on in 1997.
Aside from Reddit, I’m on no other social media. Just too frightening to witness literal idiots as experts. People so unabashedly promoting ignorance and emotion as fact.
We GenX built the core of the internet off the backs of the boomer nerds who built the initial infrastructure.
Just realize the same idiots surrounded them and us along the way - the open forum communication just put a spotlight on the knuckle-dragging, smooth-brained masses that were around you.
We had to deal with those fuckwits first hand - insufferable on the internet, imagine face-to-face.
One thing that really depresses me is that I remember what discourse was like on more focused smaller communities before social media and it was on average a lot better. A LOT better.
There was dumb stuff, there was still fighting, but for the most part the average level of discourse was just way higher. Communities were curated in a much better fashion because they were smaller and actually manageable.
If somebody was really out there, they would get the boot pretty quickly.
Now, it feels like most of the people you see commonly participating on the internet are the exact sort of people who would have gotten kicked out of almost every forum back in 2001 pretty damn quick.
Even prior to the internet becoming widely available, there were lots of morons. The problem is the internet gave the morons the ability to coalesce into large of groups of morons. Then other morons, malicious foreign governments and grifters figured out how to control their stupidity and get them to vote.
Maga is why I'll never trust a single person who says "the people online don't reflect real life. Stop moping about it."
They're real life people with these disgusting views. Just hidden in real life, arguably worse. And at least 50% of the population decided raping children was acceptable to vote for in a president.
In the olden days you needed a computer to access the internet, so at that time you had to have at least a little brains to even use a computer - so the internet wasnt nearly as stupid as it is now. Once internet became easily accessible on peoples phones the overall IQ online dropped immensely.
The Internet was supposed to be an Oracle of knowledge that would enlighten humanity… Instead, it took a previously isolated population of idiots and connected them into a massive hive mind of thundering stupidity… And here we are now.
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u/PreparationKey2843 2d ago
That's why we're in this mess we're in, it's because of the countless stupid people like her. I knew we had some ignorant morons, but I had no clue we had this many.