[p-e-w]

> To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.

Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity. You can see this every time you read the news, but you can also hear it when you just talk to random people.

The trend towards that culture started a few years before social media became a thing. I can't even imagine having a conversation with a friend anymore the way I used to in the 1990s and early 2000s. Everything I see online, I recognize from real-world interactions. Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree.

[emsixteen]

> I can't even imagine having a conversation with a friend anymore the way I used to in the 1990s and early 2000s.

I do wonder what you actually mean by this.

> Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree.

There is clear, evidenced research around social media's negative effect on society.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-020-01906-9

https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/engl_176/2/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241269305

etc.

[p-e-w]

> I do wonder what you actually mean by this.

Spoke to an old friend on the phone recently, for the first time in 10 years or so. Within a few minutes of the conversation, he had used phrases like "As a father..." and "I cannot stand by while..."

It was as if he were speaking to an audience, rather than to me. I was glad when the call ended.

[mppm]

Maybe that's what the platform creators tell themselves for the sake of being able to sleep at night. From my view, social media systematically brings out bad habits that people have much less trouble suppressing in face-to-face conversation. That is true even if the platform is well-intentioned, but if it isn't and deliberately prioritizes click-bait and borderline spam content to keep the ad machine churning (i.e. every SM platform today), then the "it's just human nature" excuse becomes very very thin, IMO.

[guappa]

Come on.

They hide anything my actual friends do, and just show some rage inducing video for the sake of keeping me there. It doesn't happen by mistake.

[blueflow]

> Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity

Its some people who do this, and these people absolutely dominate the internet world, but not the real world.