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    I posted about Marshall McLuhan not too long ago, mostly because I think it's easier to understand the modern world by way of his thoughts.

    While he talked a lot about mediums and their messages, I think social media has to do more with his theories regarding news and publishing in America.

    Basically, advertising in America is good news. It can be kind of a lie, but it is what is new and it is always a good thing. The balance to this in media is naturally bad news - so thus in the world of broadcast and publishing, often the news is bad to offset the goodness found in the solutions of consumerism.

    When we get to social media - where now people and not stories become the products - the natural evolution is people take the form of the news or the advertisements. You can see this in TikTok now, or earlier social networks before they were massive and corporate, where people are putting opinions or messaging into their content. They are serving as an ad to the world - like videos where it's something funny or cute and then someone warns about global warming.

    Social media is an active work in progress by people against a controlled and overzealous form of oppression in the institutional media sphere. However, the more media companies are just bought up by monopolies, the more extreme all of this is going to get in terms of searching for someone that will just tell the truth and not sell out about it.

    I dunno, people talk about Facebook like it's this pillar, but that shit is only ten years old. You can bet if it wasn't propped up by Wall Street investors who don't want to lose a fuck ton of money, it would be long since abandoned. It's like a hot potato, or Sears in 1997.

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    • aka, like everything, right now larger structures and their finances are the issue. this will all be chaos until the bigger problems are dealt with.colin_s
    • and we're slowly becoming robots, or likely less humanist, in the process.colin_s
    • we talk about Facebook as the first mass self-marketing tool in the user contributed content era of the internets.sted
    • “Advertising is good news” lolol wtf nonsensenb
    • Makes perfect sense to me. It's all happy people and aspirational lifestyles. Never child molesters and school shootings.monNom
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