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A Beast is an immoral creature. It reacts to external and internal stimulus.

And that sums up the definition of ALL social media.

Social media platforms are run by AIs that have one goal: to addict you to their content and make you spend as much time as possible on them. They have hundreds of engineers to write thousands of algorithms to get you to spend as much time as possible on their platforms.

They appeal to your individual hardwiring personality...it's past just a point of a fad. It's technology that is specifically designed to be addictive.

There's two types of people that refer to customers as users: drug dealers and software engineers. (There's a reason for that)
If you don't pay for a product; the changing of your way of thinking is the product.

Now where the problem comes about is when it comes to determining truth. The truth is objective and not relative.
But the AIs of the internet aren't capable of determining the truth...they are there to feed you whatever it takes to get you to stay online.

Pizza gate is a prime example. This pizza parlor doesn't have a basement that held children for sale on the slave market. Never did. They were never involved in anything of the sort. They sold pizzas and had a couple of games, fed by quarters, in the front.

Currently the unintended goal of Social Media is the destruction of democracy.

BLM is actually playing the same game as China. Others have joined the mix for opposing propaganda campaigns. All promote distrust of the Government.

Black lives matter is a stated group of Marxists.

China has a campaign to encourage behaviors for people to get sick from this pandemic. (Anti-mask and Covid parties)
No, the government is not going to send anyone in box cars to Covid protection camps. Nor would they ask.

Flat Earth, pizza gate, and other conspiracy theories of course are completely generated conspiracy theories aimed and targeted to those suseptable to believing in them. (Truth isn't relevant)

The problem is that all these are aimed, and targeted at you when you have been properly conditioned to accept these ideals as the only truth available. (And by really wealthy people and AI)

Myanmar fell to a horrible ethnic cleansing because of a wealthy few knew exactly how to promote themselves on facebook with precisely timed ads and pictures and group invitations.

The polarization of this election cycle is the result of tested manipulation of the last midterm election cycle. The other political party is not in favor of destroying democracy...but social media most certainly is.
 

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The impact of these things weigh heavily on me. I see the overall destructive impact they've had on our society, very divisive. Social media and traditional media both act in similar ways to destroy community. I've done a lot of reading and writing on these subjects if you are interested:

Integrity Declined - The need for integrity in our own dealings with truth and the internet.
The Danger of Being Alone Together - The damage to our ability to function in true community
 
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i do use Facebook but i have turned off the friend requests because men are always hitting on me, only my family and some friends are allowed to contact me, that's true social media can be damageing if we allow ugly posts on put something on there that is offensive,
 

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i do use Facebook but i have turned off the friend requests because men are always hitting on me, only my family and some friends are allowed to contact me, that's true social media can be damageing if we allow ugly posts on put something on there that is offensive,


But it's those "special interest" groups like industrial electricians or sewing machine groups or fine cuisine groups (and appropriate advertising and news articles) that are getting to you.

Remember all those stupid polls that would determine whatever type of flower or bread you are?
All that plus how long you look at anything is instantly recorded...and analyzed to get you addicted to the the stuff they feed you. The second someone "likes" a picture or tags you in it you have to "check it out"... keeping you online... because one good turn deserves another you look for opportunities to return the favor.

And as you use this thing it gets even "better" with even better stuff you scroll through and enjoy. All the while slowly changing the way you think and modifying your thought process. Slowly but surely they suggest things that you really do enjoy...
And your modifications are coming along nicely...

Especially when you see something that gets you outraged. And feeds that outrage...or then love and it feeds that love.

I'm not sure if you remember the big deal over BREXIT?
But basically the UK pulled out of the EU.
That was entirely funded by people who wanted to destabilize the EU for their own purposes through social media campaigns. (Not just facebook...but also Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, and others)

And currently there are two massive social media campaigns going on right now with BLM/Antifa, and the presidential election...there's some minor ones involving the Covid-19...but mostly it those two with huge efforts to persuade people.
 

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And then you have the children growing up with social media, their developing brains becoming formed around their internet use.

:eek:

Even adults have a hard time breaking the habit...
Hardwiring makes us always want to "know more" about....

Me?
I tend to be more about wanting to know so I can put down the phone and go do more. (LOL...too many hobbies)

But the algorithms have people's number and are intentionally addictive with no moral compunction about feeding you the truth about anything. Just that you feed is what it's focus is...others using this can persuade and influence the population.
 

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A Beast is an immoral creature. It reacts to external and internal stimulus.

And that sums up the definition of ALL social media.

Social media platforms are run by AIs that have one goal: to addict you to their content and make you spend as much time as possible on them. They have hundreds of engineers to write thousands of algorithms to get you to spend as much time as possible on their platforms.

They appeal to your individual hardwiring personality...it's past just a point of a fad. It's technology that is specifically designed to be addictive.

There's two types of people that refer to customers as users: drug dealers and software engineers. (There's a reason for that)
If you don't pay for a product; the changing of your way of thinking is the product.

Now where the problem comes about is when it comes to determining truth. The truth is objective and not relative.
But the AIs of the internet aren't capable of determining the truth...they are there to feed you whatever it takes to get you to stay online.

Pizza gate is a prime example. This pizza parlor doesn't have a basement that held children for sale on the slave market. Never did. They were never involved in anything of the sort. They sold pizzas and had a couple of games, fed by quarters, in the front.

Currently the unintended goal of Social Media is the destruction of democracy.

BLM is actually playing the same game as China. Others have joined the mix for opposing propaganda campaigns. All promote distrust of the Government.

Black lives matter is a stated group of Marxists.

China has a campaign to encourage behaviors for people to get sick from this pandemic. (Anti-mask and Covid parties)
No, the government is not going to send anyone in box cars to Covid protection camps. Nor would they ask.

Flat Earth, pizza gate, and other conspiracy theories of course are completely generated conspiracy theories aimed and targeted to those suseptable to believing in them. (Truth isn't relevant)

The problem is that all these are aimed, and targeted at you when you have been properly conditioned to accept these ideals as the only truth available. (And by really wealthy people and AI)

Myanmar fell to a horrible ethnic cleansing because of a wealthy few knew exactly how to promote themselves on facebook with precisely timed ads and pictures and group invitations.

The polarization of this election cycle is the result of tested manipulation of the last midterm election cycle. The other political party is not in favor of destroying democracy...but social media most certainly is.

So are you a user of a different type of drug dealer...the social news media of all kinds? Are they molding your mind?
Have you not drank too much of their cool aide and have become a conspiracy theorist yourself concerning this novel COVID-19 hoax. I see you as an unwittingly foot soldier for the elite, the 1%, those that want to plunge poisons into you.

I say this because you have used hyperbole about this so-called virus as read on some threads. And now you expect the worst is yet to come...when they mix common flu cases as COVID cases...this most probably will happen.

Are you sure you are not a user of a mind-altering drug? Is not the media telling you what is truth?

And you said the other political party is not going to destroy democracy. Well we are really not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. And yes, they are bent on destroying this, contrary to what you have been fed as objective and observable truth...

Just saying, I would reevaluate your truth sources....

APAK
 
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So are you a user of a different type of drug dealer...the social news media of all kinds? Are they molding your mind?
Have you not drank too much of their cool aide and have become a conspiracy theorist yourself concerning this novel COVID-19 hoax. I see you as an unwittingly foot soldier for the elite, the 1%, those that want to plunge poisons into you.

I say this because you have used hyperbole about this so-called virus as read on some threads. And now you expect the worst is yet to come...when they mix common flu cases as COVID cases...this most probably will happen.

Are you sure you are not a user of a mind-altering drug? Is not the media telling you what is truth?

And you said the other political party is not going to destroy democracy. Well we are really not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. And yes, they are bent on destroying this, contrary to what you have been fed as objective and observable truth...

Just saying, I would reevaluate your truth sources....

APAK
In other words you absolutely don't understand a thing I've said.
 

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Simply....so that SOME people can understand.

Social Media is addictive.
Deliberately made specifically addictive by algorithms for each individual person.

Others are using YOUR ADDICTION to sway your understanding as well as those around you.
 
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So are you a user of a different type of drug dealer...the social news media of all kinds? Are they molding your mind?
This forum is the only social media I do.

Just to get that up front.

I don't watch any form of broadcast TV. I only listen to one non-commercial Christian radio station, which does not include political or economic content, other than a 5 minute reading of the headlines once a day.

I see the truthfulness of @JohnDB 's assertions of what is happening, I'm surprised at any who don't!

Personally, I see very clearly how this all happens. And I think it is an insidious evil, which is actively working to destroy humanity.

Much love!
 
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This forum is the only social media I do.

Just to get that up front.

I don't watch any form of broadcast TV. I only listen to one non-commercial Christian radio station, which does not include political or economic content, other than a 5 minute reading of the headlines once a day.

I see the truthfulness of @JohnDB 's assertions of what is happening, I'm surprised at any who don't!

Personally, I see very clearly how this all happens. And I think it is an insidious evil, which is actively working to destroy humanity.

Much love!

This isn't so much Social Media as it is a message board...huge difference.

Limited audience and membership.

No where near as addictive. Interesting yes...fun yes... annoying at times too...but you aren't getting fed the same as true social media.


I'll post another thread and it will provide a type of proof of what I'm talking about.
 

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This isn't so much Social Media as it is a message board...huge difference.

Limited audience and membership.

No where near as addictive. Interesting yes...fun yes... annoying at times too...but you aren't getting fed the same as true social media.


I'll post another thread and it will provide a type of proof of what I'm talking about.

I understand.

I've done quite a bit of reading up on this subject the past several years, including giving talks to my church on internet, social media, and pornography addictions. This is a true problem for a great many people!

Much love!
 

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In other words you absolutely don't understand a thing I've said.
Of course, more than you think. The social media AI algorithmic process is one thing. It can be mesmerizing and that is why it can become a constant 'fix.' As you know I was addressing another form of media that has more affect on one's mind that this form of communication..... another immoral beast as you describe this AI ran social media. And social media won't destroy democracy as you said, it will reinforce it as in a socialistic form; democratic socialism. Something that I would not get excited over.

This should clear things up a bit then

APAK
 
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Simply....so that SOME people can understand.

Social Media is addictive.
Deliberately made specifically addictive by algorithms for each individual person.

Others are using YOUR ADDICTION to sway your understanding as well as those around you.
So you knew that I understood what you said..great
 
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This forum is the only social media I do.

Just to get that up front.

I don't watch any form of broadcast TV. I only listen to one non-commercial Christian radio station, which does not include political or economic content, other than a 5 minute reading of the headlines once a day.

I see the truthfulness of @JohnDB 's assertions of what is happening, I'm surprised at any who don't!

Personally, I see very clearly how this all happens. And I think it is an insidious evil, which is actively working to destroy humanity.

Much love!
Pretty protective I see...I hope you are helping and not impeding...truth does not need any defense, right
 
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A Beast is an immoral creature. It reacts to external and internal stimulus.

And that sums up the definition of ALL social media.

Social media platforms are run by AIs that have one goal: to addict you to their content and make you spend as much time as possible on them. They have hundreds of engineers to write thousands of algorithms to get you to spend as much time as possible on their platforms.

They appeal to your individual hardwiring personality...it's past just a point of a fad. It's technology that is specifically designed to be addictive.

There's two types of people that refer to customers as users: drug dealers and software engineers. (There's a reason for that)
If you don't pay for a product; the changing of your way of thinking is the product.

Now where the problem comes about is when it comes to determining truth. The truth is objective and not relative.
But the AIs of the internet aren't capable of determining the truth...they are there to feed you whatever it takes to get you to stay online.

Pizza gate is a prime example. This pizza parlor doesn't have a basement that held children for sale on the slave market. Never did. They were never involved in anything of the sort. They sold pizzas and had a couple of games, fed by quarters, in the front.

Currently the unintended goal of Social Media is the destruction of democracy.

BLM is actually playing the same game as China. Others have joined the mix for opposing propaganda campaigns. All promote distrust of the Government.

Black lives matter is a stated group of Marxists.

China has a campaign to encourage behaviors for people to get sick from this pandemic. (Anti-mask and Covid parties)
No, the government is not going to send anyone in box cars to Covid protection camps. Nor would they ask.

Flat Earth, pizza gate, and other conspiracy theories of course are completely generated conspiracy theories aimed and targeted to those suseptable to believing in them. (Truth isn't relevant)

The problem is that all these are aimed, and targeted at you when you have been properly conditioned to accept these ideals as the only truth available. (And by really wealthy people and AI)

Myanmar fell to a horrible ethnic cleansing because of a wealthy few knew exactly how to promote themselves on facebook with precisely timed ads and pictures and group invitations.

The polarization of this election cycle is the result of tested manipulation of the last midterm election cycle. The other political party is not in favor of destroying democracy...but social media most certainly is.



listen to the title of what its called "artificial" intelligence, meaning the intelligence is artificial and not real. just like when you call certain 1-800 numbers the company tries to get you to converse with a computer that responds to certain words. a computer can do a lot but it must be told what to do in every situation therefore its stupid and the intelligence you perceive is artificial.
 

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listen to the title of what its called "artificial" intelligence, meaning the intelligence is artificial and not real. just like when you call certain 1-800 numbers the company tries to get you to converse with a computer that responds to certain words. a computer can do a lot but it must be told what to do in every situation therefore its stupid and the intelligence you perceive is artificial.

Do you understand what an information/news bubble is?

When people surround themselves with friends who share "talking points" and sound byte slogans and news articles they agree with and nothing but that stuff is offered (regardless of truthfulness) because of the artificial intelligence that is there to keep you online and addicted to its feed....it's a problem.
 

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Pretty protective I see...I hope you are helping and not impeding...truth does not need any defense, right
Not sure what you mean there.

I'm not so much being "protective", I'm in the business of renewing my mind.

Much love!
 
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Not sure what you mean there.

I'm not so much being "protective", I'm in the business of renewing my mind.

Much love!
Copy that marks...I really misunderstood your purpose...I goofed...love over hate or incrimination, every time I say..APAK
 
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