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4 hours ago, Scary Bear said:

And it make teenage girls in the West of Scotland attack each other on trains!

Social Media is bad

 

Social media doesnt make people batter others on trains, any more than computer games make people shoot others in 'murica...................

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  • 8 months later...

As a qualified historian, social media doesn’t offer anything radically new. Ancient historians can probably cite earlier examples but the rise of the printing press enabled rabble-rousing on a new scale. Pamphlets to whip up hate and/or action in the same way social media can now, or the way tabloids did.


Stone carvings, taverns, forums, decrees, pamphlets, books, newspapers, tv, radio, social media. Evolutions of the same thing.

Folk interact with it the same way they did these things. Angry gammons congregate online the way they’d have bought The Sun. Folk in polo necks and glasses congregate on Twitter instead of writing in to The Guardian. At the extreme end crackpots meet crackpots rather than using underground newsletters.


 

 

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