Kanye West wants to ban "likes" on social media

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MANic

 
Banned
The fuel of social media is "likes", "followers" and validation-seeking. Such platforms merely exacerbate a deeply rooted problem in the live's of most of its participants.

Most of the solid mentally healthy guys I know irl have grown tired of it a long time back (post-honeymoon) and pretty much stick to functional apps (whatsapp without posting status updates) or maintain a neat profile without allocating much of their time to it. If you want healthier individuals promote ethics and values not hedonism and blind consumption.

I find celebs complaining about this ironic
 
Sourcecode

Sourcecode

Crow
Gold Member
Remember when rep was banned from the forum?
There were multiple mental breakdown around here.
People felt their self worth being ripped from them because they didn't feel value... And we are suppose to be grown men that can handle our emotions.


Now remember just a while back
https://www.barstoolsports.com/bost...na-rhoades-her-account-back-for-christs-sake/

This porn star had a breakdown and cried in Twitter that her Instagram was deleted.

Let's multiple that by a hundred thousand Instagram thots...
 
kbell

kbell

Crow
Gold Member
This sounds great. If this was done and you were a shrink, you would never have to worry about work. I also think you there were be a lot of activism of attractive people for likes, which would gather media attention.
 
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Dalaran1991

Ostrich
As usual, more thought fantasy. Like having affordable food without corn syrup.

Facebook and other social media was built on the idea of virtual validation. They would never take down this feature because that would mean the death of them.

If people were truly interested in social media without exhibitionism they would have used photobucket and not instagram. Guess which one is more popular?
 
kaotic

kaotic

Owl
Gold Member
This won't work.

Ban the amount of likes a post has, band the amount of followers/following a post has, is still missing one important thing.

That being, comments, there's THOUSANDS of comments on famous peoples stuff.

You'll still have comments on cool pics, thirsty thots, jacked dudes, people posting lavish lifestyles.

Even if you get rid of comments people with start obsessing of social media metrics and try to "outgame" the system.


At this point you can't stop social media, but even in yesteryears people were comparing themselves to others - it just happened to be their neighbors, family members or tribes.

"Comparison is the thief of joy" - Teddy Roosevelt said.

I agree with this statement, unless you're of course making yourself better off from comparisons.


Sourcecode is right when it comes to reps on the forum.

It's not like I go stroke my ego with the reps I've got and honestly I could care less if they were taken away tomorrow.

I read a newbies or low repped mans posts first before I check their posting history, then check their reps.
 
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