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Give me Wikipedia and Google Earth and you can turn off the rest of the internet.
Google earth is great. Go to places youve been before, sometimes very long ago and it all comes flooding back.
Good memory exercise.
Sometimes its crazy to look at one of the bigger cities in the larger countries and you start to zoom out and you see how tiny that city of millions really is. Gives a sense of perspective, especially understanding the size of other planets in relation to us.
We are smaller than our bacteria in comparison to the gas giants, and even the earth itself is too small to see if placed beside each other.
just don’t do that then!! it’s really not difficult at all.
It really is quite difficult. Facebook employ behavioural psychologists with nothing else to do all day than work out how to push your buttons and get you scrolling. They need people to spend as much time on there as possible to get the data to sell to companies to sell stuff to people who are on there as much as possible.
Amongst my FB friends I have four dead people, a blacksmith, a poet, a murderer (reformed), a redneck farmer, a number of stonemasons and a few academics. So, there's a diversity of feeds and you have to be a bit tolerant. Despite all the dreadful memes it can be quite useful and entertaining and it's one way to get to understand how some people's heads are shaped and serviced.
I also used to really like 'Humans of New York'. It really showed the beauty of humanity in all its wonderful diversity.
When I rule the world I’d lock down social media so there’s no anonymity – the real person is always there and exposed to all your friends, family, employers.
If you want to shoot your racist, sexist, homophobic mouth off you have to be prepared to defend it in person.
Not sure that would actually fix much, there are plenty of unrepentant arseholes about.
Just be selective about what you like / friend - very easy to tune it to what you want to see.
Want to see cute pictures of baby hedgehogs?
@tomd right, but we're not talking about spending less time on there, we're talking about not seeing toxic/nasty crap. I actually [I]do[/I] spend a fair bit of time on there (or at least, check it pretty regularly) so probably whatever these behaviourists are doing is working. But I almost never see any shitty stuff popping up in my feed (and when I do, that person will be rounded on VERY swiftly by other people which is actually very heartening to see). That is 100% down to the user - the algorithm feeds you more stuff that you WANT, not stuff you don't want.It really is quite difficult. Facebook employ behavioural psychologists with nothing else to do all day than work out how to push your buttons and get you scrolling. They need people to spend as much time on there as possible
Most places are alright as long as you avoid the comments section I’ve found, easier said than done though.
Rule 1. Never read the bottom half of the Internet.
just don’t do that then!! it’s really not difficult at all. All my FB “friends” are of the non-bellend variety, I am a member of a couple of local friendly community groups that explicitly ban/delete politics, religion, bad-behaviour etc and the rest is incredibly useful/informative hobby or trade-industry groups that again prohibit anything controversial.
This. It's not Facebook, it's just people. if you choose to hang out with nobbers then you can't complain that people are nobbers.
Facebook employ behavioural psychologists
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Knock yourself out, look like some good jobs in there to be fair.
The internet was a much nicer place before most of the population had the means to access it
I guess the person who said this wasn't around in the very early days of the internet. eg. alt.images.pedophilia etc. The sick bastards were there at the start, I can assure you.
You don't have to spend all you time on the internet, if it's "toxic", take up drawing, watch telly (and get sick of the we are your pandemic hero bank adverts etc), Why don't you switch off your computer.. etc.
I only spend time here, Bandcamp and other music sites. My Facebook and Twitter were mainly just music and MTB, but all the musicians have been posting crap from the protests etc... so I mostly avoid them.
Knock yourself out, look like some good jobs in there to be fair.
Not seeing a single mention of "psychologist." Care to try again?
I only spend time here, Bandcamp
Do you have a flute?
Bandcamp is an American online music company founded in 2008 by Oddpost[2] co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker;[3][4][5][6] the company is headquartered in Oakland, California
Artists and labels upload music to Bandcamp and control how they sell it, setting their own prices, offering fans the option to pay more[8] and selling merchandise.
During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Bandcamp announced that they would be waiving their share of revenue and donating all sales to artists for 24 hours on March 20.[14] Afterwards, they announced that they would be repeating the initiative on the first Friday of the month between May and July.
In response to the protests that took place following the death of George Floyd as well as multiple other African Americans who have lost their lives to police violence, Bandcamp announced for 24 hours on June 19, they will donate 100% of profits to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
I think that makes it one of the "Nice places on the internet"
take up drawing, watch telly
Watch Bob Ross - 2 birds with one stone
Not seeing a single mention of “psychologist.” Care to try again?
Read the job descriptions. If you're of more an academic you could turn your hand at
Not to mention the legacy issues with Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Patrick Fagan.