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Social media has sucked for a long time, I'm just interested to see whatever happens to Twitter

Social media is awesome. I'm very happy to have Google Photos, Signal group threads, and certain subreddits in my life.

Free-for-all "town squares" where no one knows or cares about each other are awful and always have been.

Facebook went to shit when they started letting you see and interact with random strangers. And that's always been a feature of Twitter.

Humans just aren't built to have productive, positive conversations with hundreds of millions of other people, bots, and nation-states. It's insane that anyone thought these products would be good for us.

Here is a dystopian vision. Randoms halfway around the world orchestrate a social gathering targeting say young rich attractive available women/men/misc who are then cunningly knocked out by date rape drug. Their lifeless limp wrist body is carried off into the night underneath a coat by dracula's minions of organized crime and the rest is an unhappy ending for all except the one percent in this scene that noone ever sees.

MySpace.

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