Described: Social Media’s Disastrous Impact on Us

A popular essay detailing the harm caused by ever-present social media resurfaced on Twitter Friday.

Below is the complete Twitter twine by the recently banned user, “ The writer Jay”:

Again, this but un-ironically. Nothing pains me more than seeing footage of everyday individuals in everyday situations through as recently as 10-15 years ago and realizing just how uninhibited and “ real” everyone looked and served before pervasive social media ruined it all.

They have that old post-Jungian concept of the two versions of yourself, ourselves as we experience the globe and others, and ourselves since others actually perceive us. For 199, 990 many years of human existence, our own perception of self has centered our interactions with the globe.  

But for the past decade or so, we have been digitally inundated with simple guidelines of how others actually discover us. A flick from the lock screen gives us a years-long public-facing visual record of how we’ve appeared to the outside world. It’s profoundly abnormal, it’s been a disaster.  

For some, it’s enjoyable. You remember a girl through college, that cute golden-haired from sophomore bio lab, the one with the Roman nasal area and the great ass. You want you’d made a proceed back then. You look up the girl grainy bikini photos from study abroad ’09. You furiously jack off to them.

This is what Zuckerberg wanted it to be. This really is social media in its purest type. You convince that pretty girl you admire from afar but are too shy to talk to that she ought to upload her George W Bush-era bikini photos towards the internet so you can jack off to them.  

But it got out of hand. What was intended as idle amusement for socially awkward autists to see if the girl off their intro to C++ course had a boyfriend or not before they asked to be the girl project partner has metastasized into a psychological prison with regard to normies.

People were always more aware about themselves from the get-go, that’s why they wore Abercrombie plus played sports and went to parties and watched soccer instead of hanging out in the mathematics club or wearing Superstar Trek shirts or speaking with other autists on Netnews.  

But social media locked them in to a horrific self-reinforcing cycle. These people see a permanent record of their peers online. They put the best versions of themselves in THEIR online permanent record, their particular friends see this and try to one-up them with THEIR best versions of themselves.

Etc etc ad infinitum.

A certain man known as it “ oversocialization” he or she was talking about the 60s, though. I can only think about what he’d have to say about where we are today. The faculty campuses of the Nixon many years might as well be ancient Sumeria compared to the social melange of the past decade or 2.  

Now, everyone’s overdosed on others’ perceptions of them. This has resulted in an unprecedented convergence of human behavior. Everyone utilizes the same mannerisms, everyone dresses with the same attention to fine detail, everyone talks about the same stuff on the same cues.  

Few things that we do now aren’t filtered through the ever-oppressing consensus associated with mutual hyper-perception. Even people who believe that they’re going backward unwittingly conform to an increasingly optimized set of behaviors in order to maximize external engagement.  

Now, everyone is Brittany Murphy in Clueless, the particular proverbial new girl attempting desperately to fit in with the ever-changing whims of the cool girl’s clique. Only instead of Alicia Silverstone, it’s a planet-spanning silicon behemoth with vast amounts of eyes looking in onto it daily.  

And that’s just the Gen Xers and millennials.  

Gen Z has it incomprehensibly worse. While older folks at least had the chance to form a truly self-directed concept of themselves before social media shattered it and replaced it with a crowdsourced facsimile, Style Z has known nothing but the machine.  

You see this in the way they interact with the world, how they connect to each other. They’ve never identified anything but seeing themselves because others see them, each single behavior they take part in is filtered through their particular perceptions of how others may later perceive them.  

There’s a reasons why all of the silicon valley bigwigs chose to raise their own children Waldorf style, as faraway from any electronics as possible.  

This contemporary social media-corrupted “ childhood” is a behavioral prison, with all elements of natural behavior or spontaneity now subsumed by fears of how others might later see it.  

It’s the age-old high school gossip machine, long the nemesis of youthful exuberance, but now it’s been pumped on V’ger steroids, and it’s scanned and digitized every aspect of youthful people’s lives, replacing these a cold, sterile facsimile of what it means to be young.

And the kids who’ve already been destroyed by this possess retreated from nearly every solitary aspect of adolescence as it’s been experienced for the past 50 yrs. They aren’t starting artists, they aren’t tuning vehicles, they aren’t even adult dating or having sex. The data is terrifying.  

And all because Mark Zuckerberg wanted to creep on his classmates.  

Now i am not sure how we fix this particular, but I’m pretty sure that banning capacitive touch displays, and with them the truly democratized internet, would be a great place to start.  

It’s very likely though this is a spiritual speciation event, and most people exposed to your brain poison will never recover in any meaningful way. Cratering marriage and birthrates seem to back again this up, and in the long run it may well be a self-correcting problem.  

But in the interim, we face something almost unprecedented, a world in which the freest thinkers, those who will be able to reverse destruction and build a better future aren’t the young, yet those old enough to get been relatively uncorrupted simply by digital life.  

It’s an inverse 1960s.

Have a tendency trust anyone under 30.

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