The Great Blessing Of Social Media

[sp1814]

I often hear Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and especially Twitter slated both on AB and elsewhere...

But do these bring a slight thawing to our collective feelings about social media?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36443710

[albaqwerty]

take it none of them have a working brain-cell?

If it's on the internet it becomes public knowledge for all and sundry.

Glad they were hauled back in and given custodial sentences
(which imho, they should have had in the first place)

[Arksided]

Although some truly awful crimes, I can't help but laugh at the stupidity.

Of the above I only like FB... and that's strictly limited to family and friends.

[sandyRoe]

I sometimes wonder how people so stupid as to post their criminal activities for all the world to see manage to navigate their way onto social media.

[Bertrum]

Its useful for something then

[ummmm]

Same as Ark, I only use FB, and even among family and friends there are some pretty stupid posts...

[agchristie]

On a related theme, I've just read this book, anyone else?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sockpuppet-Book-One-Martingale-Cycle-ebook/dp/B012DTM2HO

[andy-hughes]

The problem with social media is - ironically - the isolation in which its operators live and work.

It possesses ironies like referring to other contacts as 'friends' when the majority of them fill no criteria for the use of such a term.

But the most important aspect of its use, is the lack of censorship, either personal or collective, before posts are put up for the world to see.

How often would a friend (in the accepted sense of the word!) or loved one counsel a little caution - Are you really sure you want to write that ...? would be the notion of the restraint being advised.

But no - any brainless hump with a keyboard and a self-inflated sense of importance can share their pointless witterings with an indifferent universe, and on the principle of monkeys/typewriters/ Shakespeare - you get fools like this who are rightly dealt with for being incapable of understanding simple concepts that accompany life in a civilised society - namely the idea that just because it comes into your pin-sized brain does not give you the right to express is to any member of the civilised universe, who will quite rightly expose you for the shallow morality-free brain-dead imbecilic twonk you so clearly are.

I guess the short answer - based on that typed-as-thought rant-ette is that no, there is no thawing, slight or otherwise, from me!

[Old_Geezer]

Not really. It'd be an ill wind indeed that didn't blow any good at all.

[ummmm]

Andy - to be fair they are few and far between. Most people use it sensibly. And most people I know who use social media are not isolated.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, not a fan of Twitface etc but I am grateful for anything good that can come out of it.

[Mamyalynne]

Social media brings out the best and the worst in people, but that's just life isn't it?

[pixie374]

It's natural selection...

[andy-hughes]

Pix - //It's natural selection... //

I think it's inverse natural selection - survival of the unfittest!!

The numpties rise to the top, and anyone with a brain gives up sooner or later!!!

[pixie374]

:-)

[Arksided]

Ummm, Same as Ark, I only use FB, and even among family and friends there are some pretty stupid posts...

oh yes... I know what you mean, it's a shame I can't ban a member whom is now related, with her inane drivel... does my head in. I can cope with the banter slagging from Littlepool supporters against Man United... more than reading the waffle... she'd love it on here but this is my Sanctuary.

[ToraToraTora]

can you not debuddy them or something?

[youngmafbog]

Tools of the Devil.

[paulstain]

Nothing is good or bad, its "use" make it good or bad. Many big online brands are doing business through social media. So, it depends on you how do you use social media, either positive or negative.
https://techzostore.com/

[Garaman]

andy-hughes, Answerbank comes under the heading of Social Media doesn't it? Are you referring to AB users in your first post? I mean is that post perhaps even some form of confessional catharsis?