I think it’s socially engineered. It was pushed by social media influencers and it caught on. Social media companies want us isolated so that we’re dependent on their platforms.
How can you organize if you can’t speak about the ills of the world?
That’s the point. Corporations in general want us isolated so we don’t talk about our problems, realize the issue is bigger than ourselves and that we’re not the problem, the system is, and then organize around doing something about it.
So the people who control the algorithms made sure to promote the content that stigmatizes concepts like “oversharing” and “trauma dumping.” And people just accepted that as truth. It’s an insidious psyop.
I could see this being pushed to create more intrinsically divisive narratives and a push toward self isolation in service of social media platforms. It’s far from the most harmful thing Facebook has done.
I think it’s socially engineered. It was pushed by social media influencers and it caught on. Social media companies want us isolated so that we’re dependent on their platforms.
That’s the point. Corporations in general want us isolated so we don’t talk about our problems, realize the issue is bigger than ourselves and that we’re not the problem, the system is, and then organize around doing something about it.
So the people who control the algorithms made sure to promote the content that stigmatizes concepts like “oversharing” and “trauma dumping.” And people just accepted that as truth. It’s an insidious psyop.
I could see this being pushed to create more intrinsically divisive narratives and a push toward self isolation in service of social media platforms. It’s far from the most harmful thing Facebook has done.