The big difference between LRC message boards and social media is that LRC is not curated specifically for you. In my case, LRC has exposed me to the lunatic fringe of the conspiracy-theorist right, which I don't think the echo chambers of social media would have done.
not even a runner wrote:
I watched "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix awhile back, and it disturbed me enough to get off social media completely.
Then how did you manage to post here?
This is social media!
TAA wrote:
The Industrial Revolution was a mistake.
Ted Kaczynski may have been right. If only he wasn't psychotic too.
Runner10287 wrote:
TAA wrote:
The Industrial Revolution was a mistake.
Ted Kaczynski may have been right. If only he wasn't psychotic too.
What gives you the authority to declare him psychotic?
Star wrote:
not even a runner wrote:
I watched "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix awhile back, and it disturbed me enough to get off social media completely.
Then how did you manage to post here?
This is social media!
No it's not. Your crappy response has already been debunked in this thread. Please read.
Uncle Ted wrote:
Runner10287 wrote:
Ted Kaczynski may have been right. If only he wasn't psychotic too.
What gives you the authority to declare him psychotic?
Same authority that gives you the authority to ask me what gives me the authority.
The Social Dilemna (documentary) is all about this. Highly recommend it - it’ll change your day to day life and how you interact with apps.
Number one takeaway - turn off notifications.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
One difference is that after you see your boss's new car in the parking lot during the workday, you can immediately forget about it after you leave the office . Same with seeing people having fun on a casual glance down the street. Whereas with social media you're constantly bombarded with images that are easier to imprint in your head. Any given hour you might receive a notification of a new event on some distant acquaintance's timeline. Or it will appear in your news feed. And this happens 100's of times a week in social media era (depending on how many friends you have on your timeline).
Before social media you didn't have a constant reminder of how much your life sucks right in the palm of your hands ready to make you feel inferior.
the platform of life wrote:
How is this any different than the rest of life though? In a given day, I see my neighbor outside with his new grill, my boss drives a really nice car into the work parking lot, the guy on the corner throws an awesome party and always has friends over, a buddy meets me and my wife for dinner with a smoking hot new gf, the guy 2 years older than me beats me in our local 5k.
Everything people are envious of on Facebook happens in real life too. What are you going to do, not participate in life because someone else might be better or have better?
1) Fantastic post.
2) Fantastic reply to post.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Just removing the Like and reaction buttons would solve most of the problems.
How about getting rid of the newsfeed? I remember when they started the newsfeed and couldn't believe it. Back in the day, you had to log into facebook and go look at your friends page to see how they were doing. "OH I wonder how my friend victoria is doing?" And go there. Not that much different than giving her a call. Suddenly, it was thrown in your face. At first, people were outraged and viewed the newsfeed as an invasion of privacy.
But quickly people had their own personal version of the National Enquirer and they couldn't help due what people had done for years in the grocery store checkout line - glance at the gossip.
gdm wrote:
The big difference between LRC message boards and social media is that LRC is not curated specifically for you. In my case, LRC has exposed me to the lunatic fringe of the conspiracy-theorist right, which I don't think the echo chambers of social media would have done.
Another great post. I'm definitely talking about this thread on this week's podcast.
podcast.letsrun.com
Right, and the worst part of the newsfeed is that it's curated by Facebook, not you. There are some people that show up all the time and some never, regardless of how often I interact with them. And like they mention in The Social Dilemma, it's usually the political stuff that's front and center.
bfef wrote:
TAA wrote:
The Industrial Revolution was a mistake.
The agricultural revolution was a mistake.
Sanitation and medicine are a mistake
gdm wrote:
The big difference between LRC message boards and social media is that LRC is not curated specifically for you. In my case, LRC has exposed me to the lunatic fringe of the conspiracy-theorist right, which I don't think the echo chambers of social media would have done.
LRC message boards are highly curated.
Posts get deleted all the time. Mostly for the wrong reasons.
And most disturbingly all the alt right, "the election is stolen" and "I don't wear a mask" posts can stay up.
low profile running wrote:
gdm wrote:
The big difference between LRC message boards and social media is that LRC is not curated specifically for you. In my case, LRC has exposed me to the lunatic fringe of the conspiracy-theorist right, which I don't think the echo chambers of social media would have done.
LRC message boards are highly curated.
Posts get deleted all the time. Mostly for the wrong reasons.
And most disturbingly all the alt right, "the election is stolen" and "I don't wear a mask" posts can stay up.
Because the election was stolen and mask are useless.
gdm wrote:
The big difference between LRC message boards and social media is that LRC is not curated specifically for you. In my case, LRC has exposed me to the lunatic fringe of the conspiracy-theorist right, which I don't think the echo chambers of social media would have done.
Or the Alt Left which never does that, nor lie, steal, rob, cheat, etc...because they are much better humans (in their minds). Back to CNN brah.
Never really used FB myself , it's kinda nice to use to message and share family photos etc. The feed part though makes it way to addictive simar to YouTube recommending you stuff very easy to get sucked in to all that, it's not healthy.
My biggest social media vice is Strava unfortunately, though a little piece of me dies whenever I give a kudos out.
Sigh, oh to have the 90s back.
Another great thread by bartholomew_maxwell
low profile running wrote:
gdm wrote:
The big difference between LRC message boards and social media is that LRC is not curated specifically for you. In my case, LRC has exposed me to the lunatic fringe of the conspiracy-theorist right, which I don't think the echo chambers of social media would have done.
LRC message boards are highly curated.
Posts get deleted all the time. Mostly for the wrong reasons.
And most disturbingly all the alt right, "the election is stolen" and "I don't wear a mask" posts can stay up.
You guys crack me up. Leftist posts are everywhere on here, albeit mostly by Russian bots.
I would not classify Letsrun as social media as the content is static and I assume not displaying based on an algorithm.
explainame wrote:
i aint drank 40s since i became old enough to drink wrote:
does the letsrun messageboard count as social media?
No, it’s the opposite. When I visit LetsRun I feel way better about myself when I compare myself to the other visitors!
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality
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Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
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