Thread 82758682

Not going to post my tag here but anyone else think it's becoming increasingly hard to find friendships online now? Seems like people are becoming more apathetic, rude, expecting more from me. What caused this?

>>82758682 (OP)
I use the internet for socialization but I never formed any friendships online. I like being anonymous and being able to troll and invent new identities and opinions on the fly.

>>82758682 (OP)
i have noticed this too. thankfully i still have 2 online people i met as a teenager. otherwise id be solo with no friends or senpai at all

>>82758712
>senpai
can we fucking remove this outdated ass filter, i forget it exists until it rapes a serious statement.

>>82758712
I have like three people who message me every other day. It's not enough in my opinion, but I also found out I am very empty person who has nothing interesting going on in my life, no achievements, not even interests to speak about. I know the problem is me but I still feel like zoomers are becoming more hostile and apathetic.

>>82758735
i have no achievements either. i just play games every day and then go to bed at like 3 in the afternoon because my sleep schedule is fucked. i agree that zoomies are hostile for no reason. its rather unfortunate for our generation, i turn 25 in 3 months but i spend all my time online and dont do anything with my life and ive been this way since age 15... is what it is i suppose

>>82758682 (OP)
I never searched for one, but that's partly because i don't expect to find one.

>>82758682 (OP)
>What caused this?
Accelerationism
Not just in terms of the bad, but in terms of the good too
As in, now folks expect friendships to just blossom the moment you guys start talking
Folks think the moment you say "hi" is the moment they just *have* to play vidya together, talk about every interest, spend time every moment

It doesn't work like that, and when folks see that it doesn't work like that, they abandon ship
>"I didn't feel the spark"
But it's never been a single spark, it's like a long long *long* ass wick and ideally, it's never meant to go off
A constant slow burning that'll never once fade

But folks don't like slow now
Everything's gotta be fast
Everything's gotta accelerate

>>82758682 (OP)
I first entered a chatroom in 1996 as a child through compuserve, eventually AOL dial up internet.
Most of you do not understand and will never understand that early internet groups were like. I don't use the word community. It is a misnomer. A community is a number of people living in close proximity whose labors both socially and economically are intertwined such that they have a shared stake both practically as well as geographically. It is reinforced by being of a shared ethnic cohort and having similar dispositions. There aren't many communities left in industrialized populations much less internet groups (but I would concede there are some)

Another life experience some of you might know but many of you don't is the general vibe of people you meet "on vacation" - particularly in outdoor activities (camping / hiking). It's worth noting that these excursion groups (in my American, earlier, experiences) were overwhelmingly White.

The early internet was a collection of middleclass+ White people with the demeanor of being on a fun excursion. Strangers were (far more) polite and eager to talk to one another. "Trolling" wasn't even a word that had entered into the common lexicon. As a precocious child I, for a time, had a variety of friends from a myriad of backgrounds. My first long time gaming friend was a graduate student at Oxford. I miss his friendship and regret not being able to better appreciate the influence of a mentor.

Humans were never meant to be lumped into indiscriminate masses of free interaction. The statement grates at my libertarian fantasy freedom obsessed tendencies but it remains true. Geographical barriers and travel/migration difficulties reinforced the sorts of filters that would funnel people into communities.

>>82758995
(...cont)
There's no technical reason why the necessary principles of guiding people through filters to meaningfully connected groups with the advent of the internet and its tools and hubs could not have been the case. That has not been the case. It is the will of our unnamed oligarchs that the masses be made productive slaves at best and culled if they don't become that. The feckless deployment of present "social media" occurred under that sentiment rather than a desire to drive coalescing the like-minded.

The internet went the way of the modern metropolis. The multicultural fragmented race to the bottom where the digital spaces can all resemble the quintessential third world cramped shithole of base expressions and people stepping over the corpses of rotting tranq addicts. At best - seeming social groups loosely gather over mental illness diversions trying desperately to fill the voids of their real lives against the backdrop of the economic desperation that moves all people into desperate creatures that only value address to their basest desires: lust, soothing distractions of novelty, and greed.

>>82759054
In actuality the reasons for the way the internet is are quite different that what you think. Social atomisation occoured because of personalized social media feeds, which were created by companies to make users addicted to their platforms and get more ad revenue out of them, which made people only see what they wanted, and only want what they saw. This made people more unique than they realised but also more secluded than ever, as they now had nobody to share their "uniqueness" with, with certain exceptions of course. This was clearly an unplanned consequence for the rich since now they have a mental health and fertility epidemic on their hands instead of productive workers, but they won't just give up their profits for this, so they're trying all sorts of ways to cirmcumvent it, like immigration, outsourcing and AI, all of which have more drawbacks than not, which they'll realise in due time.
People by default segregate to their own kind, but they're almost all their own people, so they're alone. Of course this isn't as prevailent yet, since the majority of the population predates such social media, but it is what we're converging into.
>The internet went the way of the modern metropolis.
I'd rather say the modern metropolis went the way of the internet, as social media shaped peoples knowledge of the world, they grew distant and unrelateable to each other.

>>82758995
>Another life experience some of you might know but many of you don't is the general vibe of people you meet "on vacation" - particularly in outdoor activities (camping / hiking). It's worth noting that these excursion groups (in my American, earlier, experiences) were overwhelmingly White.
I'm a zoomer and experienced that, it's nice.
>Geographical barriers and travel/migration difficulties reinforced the sorts of filters that would funnel people into communities.
>There's no technical reason why the necessary principles of guiding people through filters to meaningfully connected groups with the advent of the internet and its tools and hubs could not have been the case. That has not been the case. It is the will of our unnamed oligarchs that the masses be made productive slaves at best and culled if they don't become that. The feckless deployment of present "social media" occurred under that sentiment rather than a desire to drive coalescing the like-minded.
>The internet went the way of the modern metropolis.
I live in a city. Having people of every race, background, religion etc. doesn't work, in fact it makes life unbearable.
>The multicultural fragmented race to the bottom where the digital spaces can all resemble the quintessential third world cramped shithole of base expressions and people stepping over the corpses of rotting tranq addicts. At best - seeming social groups loosely gather over mental illness diversions trying desperately to fill the voids of their real lives against the backdrop of the economic desperation that moves all people into desperate creatures that only value address to their basest desires: lust, soothing distractions of novelty, and greed.
This all like most problems, stems from the actions and desires of a certain wealthy and powerful elite ethnoreligious group.

>>82759339
>This made people more unique than they realised but also more secluded than ever, as they now had nobody to share their "uniqueness" with, with certain exceptions of course.
This is true. People online now are very specific.
>but they won't just give up their profits for this, so they're trying all sorts of ways to cirmcumvent it, like immigration, outsourcing and AI, all of which have more drawbacks than not, which they'll realise in due time.
The future is pitch black due to those 3.
>Of course this isn't as prevailent yet, since the majority of the population predates such social media, but it is what we're converging into.
We're moving towards a real dystopia and it's actually accelerating.
>I'd rather say the modern metropolis went the way of the internet, as social media shaped peoples knowledge of the world, they grew distant and unrelateable to each other.
This is partially true.

>>82758682 (OP)
Unironically women.

You notice how shitty everything got the moment women joined the workforce?

Think about everything you like and whether it's gotten better or worse, then look at the sex of the people behind it.

Women dominate social media and women are everything that women are, and men are weak these days so everyone acts like a rude bitch, because rude bitches control our society now