Sad Reality And Boring State of Social Media

#socialmedia #depression

I’m tired of the same way these social media are designed, they haven't changed ever since Friendster was created. We need something new. We've had the same way of interacting online ever since the internet was born. It has always been, sign-up, follow, get followed in name of the connection. Post, like, share, comment, repeat, that's it, in the name of interacting. This has put many people under pressure to get attention, pressure to be seen, and go viral.

Everybody wants to be famous, and be recognized nowadays, they want many followers, many likes, and many views, and they don't even care about one on one interactions anymore. Which often leads to depression. I'm not saying that it's bad to be recognized or to be famous or so. But it should come naturally, we need to work for it and it should be real with true people behind you I mean people who care about you, not people who follow you just because you followed them, as in following for follow.

Social media has taken over our lives and to make it worse they have given us the bots aka artificial intelligence to control us now. It is so sad.

Artificial intelligence is now the ‘god’ fancied us ‘recommendation engine’. It's the one that dictates what we see; everything we’re shown is theirs to decide. This is a big problem though, we as human beings changes every day, today we like this, tomorrow we like that, based on our emotions. That's our nature, right? Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, doesn’t have any emotions hence, it can’t understand what we truly need or want. So, no matter how hard these social media try to use them to recommend content to us, they have failed miserably.

Jesus, they even control who we follow; those whom they think are "better suited to be our friends". It's so sad

I know you would say No! But you know deep down they have failed us terribly. Look, how many people are depressed or have anxiety or have just committed suicide just because of these recommendations from ‘monster’ bots called social media? They aim to keep you hooked they don't care what they feed you it doesn’t matter whether it's hate speech or depressing content.

If you're sad they'll feed you even more sadness, if you’re lonely they'll feed you even more lonesomeness and if you like horror they’ll feed you even more horror and the list goes on and on. If you like the flashy lifestyle they’ll keep on shoving them down your throat, mostly promoting fake lifestyles contents.

I want to say well, we've had this for a long time it has worked but we need something new. We need social websites to be natural, with no algorithms, and no need to follow or to be followed. The follow should change to fan-based, you don't need many people to follow you, you only need a few people to be your true fans. That is those who interact with you regularly as is in real life.

You don’t need many people to be fulfilled in life, only keep those who are always with you, there for you whenever you need them and if they stop interacting with you well, you know what happens.

The contents should be chronological and only based on a relationship between the post you're reading or interacting with right then when you go back to the home page it's chronological.

We need to let artificial intelligence help us interact but it should not dictate how we interact, what we interact with, or who we interact with, it should help to make the internet safe, and it should help us do translations, and image recognition to make the apps even more enjoyable.

Websites are popping up lately, the likes of Bereal and Yaahpy are trying but they aren't there yet, we need something that will always bring us together, make us happier and bring in true connections. I hope someday we will be able to have something like that. Let's be free.

Thank you for your time I appreciate you. I hope you enjoyed reading this let me know what you think in the comment section below. Have a good one peace ✌️.