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These busybody websites provide their users with a false sense of achievement as they add 'friends' or 'followers' to their often pseudonymous accounts. Users often display compulsive behavior, endlessly producing vacuous and repetitive content for their facebook pages or twitter feeds, where the near-total absence of [[conservative]] voices allows the most absurd nonsense to be applauded by 'followers'. The term itself demonstrates the unhealthy attitudes found on - and encouraged by - these sites, as users strive to build armies of unquestioning supporters and flee from honest, open-minded, intellectual debate. | These busybody websites provide their users with a false sense of achievement as they add 'friends' or 'followers' to their often pseudonymous accounts. Users often display compulsive behavior, endlessly producing vacuous and repetitive content for their facebook pages or twitter feeds, where the near-total absence of [[conservative]] voices allows the most absurd nonsense to be applauded by 'followers'. The term itself demonstrates the unhealthy attitudes found on - and encouraged by - these sites, as users strive to build armies of unquestioning supporters and flee from honest, open-minded, intellectual debate. | ||
Revision as of 13:03, June 6, 2011
Social media is a euphemistic term for the gossipy and busybody websites that have developed to make money off of underachievers who waste time there. Characteristics of social media include:
- lack of educational content
- lower academic and job-related achievement by those who spend time there
- dominance by misleading liberal belief systems
- interference with the development of good, lasting relationships
- displacement of healthy social gatherings
- evidence from social media is used in a rising number of divorce cases[1]
These busybody websites provide their users with a false sense of achievement as they add 'friends' or 'followers' to their often pseudonymous accounts. Users often display compulsive behavior, endlessly producing vacuous and repetitive content for their facebook pages or twitter feeds, where the near-total absence of conservative voices allows the most absurd nonsense to be applauded by 'followers'. The term itself demonstrates the unhealthy attitudes found on - and encouraged by - these sites, as users strive to build armies of unquestioning supporters and flee from honest, open-minded, intellectual debate.
Politicians who embrace Facebook seem to enjoy a short-term boost in popularity followed by a long-term decline in credibility.[2]
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References
- ↑ AAML press release
- ↑ Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are two examples of this.