Tag: internet culture

marsincharge:

platovevo:

platovevo:

listen i also hate those dumbass political cartoons about kids and their phones but at the same time you’re a fool if you flat out deny there are negative aspects to the way we communicate in the social media age

facebook and instagram strategically time your notifications after you post something to make you waste time scrolling. those two platforms also come to mind as being particularly performative (“look at this beautiful picture-ready thing i’m doing today”) although any social media encourages that. snapchat’s streak feature, as well as those stupid emojis next to people’s names, exist solely to suck you into using the app every day. twitter and instagram display your follower count, and facebook displays how many friends you have. tumblr cultivates a culture of oversharing, and although you can have one-on-one conversations on here, most “communication” takes the form of shouting from a soapbox. all of these things are related to the problem of privacy online, which many of us simply assume doesn’t exist and should therefore be tossed aside so that we can dissect and manufacture every detail of our selves and desires online. you can’t honestly tell me these things are of no concern for the way we understand ourselves and others, and our relationships to the world.

I love this post. Also note that social media (the Internet truly), in a way that TV hasn’t been able to achieve, allows advertisers to be more intimate and targeted than they’ve ever been before. Through platforms like Instagram and Facebook, we basically declare to them the things we desire, interact with most often, the places we go, etc…

All that information is scraped from us and used for all sorts of stuff. To get us to buy things, to get us to watch things, to sway our opinions on so many things.

vampireapologist:

hey guys so i get asked a lot on my posts whether or not it’s okay to reblog something and the answer is of course if I don’t specifically state to not reblog something, then it’s fine.

but this worries me bc I now realize there’s a culture of people believing it’s like…….reasonable to put in their about page “don’t reblog anything without asking, don’t follow without asking.”

and I know in a perfect world everyone would respect that. I certainly respect that. And I don’t want to sound like some jerk “just tellin’ it like it is,” or a paranoid mom when chat rooms were first invented but,

this is a public blogging site. it’s not social media. it wasn’t designed to be social media. it was deigned for public presentation and consumption. it’s why we JUST got a dm feature after years of people complaining. and why your site can’t be private unless it’s locked. things like blocking features etc. are useless because, well, this isn’t a private space, for anyone.

even if the blocking feature actually kept a user from your blog, they could just log out to read it. or if only logged-in users can see your blog, they can make another tumblr. they can make 50 new emails and 50 new tumblrs.

it won’t matter. because this space is Not Private.

I don’t want to upset anyone, but any regular person with FIVE minutes of spare time can bypass ANYTHING but a locked, truly private blog, and like. That’s not going to change any time soon or probably at all.

So while I wish nobody had to worry about stuff? This is a public site.

Don’t post things you don’t want people to have access to.

ESPECIALLY if these things put you in danger (from abusers, from stalkers, from some jerk you know reads your stuff).

I really wish this weren’t an issue, but y’all NEED to think before you post! I sound like a 1999 computer class teacher, but don’t put all your personal lives and business out there!

Just please, be careful!!!