This is such an important topic, now more than ever. Also, people need to consider the worst: what if the person they’re posting about has cut off their abusive family, but now they’ve given them (the family) a hint as to where they are regionally? What if someone is horribly insecure about how they look, and now they have a bunch of vitriol thrown at them about their worst insecurities from strangers they’ve never even met?
Social media, used by the notoriously “bad” among us is not really a new, previously unheard of phenomenon. People have been doxxing each other since the dawn of language. What is different today is degree to which the dissemination of the doxxing has grown. Remember the times when the news media, out of genuine concern for the reputations of those they reported about would purposely hide the “indiscretions” of the rich and famous, attempting to not be the cause of their infamy? Nowadays, dirt and filth garners more attention rather than less. And, there seems to be no fix for this problem. Hence the typical response, “you shouldn’t believe everything you see, read, or watch from the internet, née modern day media. Media is one social precisely because partakes want to know everything negative about a person so they can dox them. Instead of seeking that which can be a positive influence or present someone in a more positive light. I certainly have no solution to this phenomenon. Other to encourage people to only believe that which they can intuit is the truth. Thanks largely to ‘he who will not be named, aka, ‘he who needs no introduction’, truth no longer has any meaningful purpose. I content that a world without truth is exactly like in the Dark Ages when seekers of truth were summarily stoned to death or burned at the stake for not towing the prevailing pseudo-truth. Power be to the infallible. But humans among all God’s creatures, are the least
This is such an important topic, now more than ever. Also, people need to consider the worst: what if the person they’re posting about has cut off their abusive family, but now they’ve given them (the family) a hint as to where they are regionally? What if someone is horribly insecure about how they look, and now they have a bunch of vitriol thrown at them about their worst insecurities from strangers they’ve never even met?
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Social media, used by the notoriously “bad” among us is not really a new, previously unheard of phenomenon. People have been doxxing each other since the dawn of language. What is different today is degree to which the dissemination of the doxxing has grown. Remember the times when the news media, out of genuine concern for the reputations of those they reported about would purposely hide the “indiscretions” of the rich and famous, attempting to not be the cause of their infamy? Nowadays, dirt and filth garners more attention rather than less. And, there seems to be no fix for this problem. Hence the typical response, “you shouldn’t believe everything you see, read, or watch from the internet, née modern day media. Media is one social precisely because partakes want to know everything negative about a person so they can dox them. Instead of seeking that which can be a positive influence or present someone in a more positive light. I certainly have no solution to this phenomenon. Other to encourage people to only believe that which they can intuit is the truth. Thanks largely to ‘he who will not be named, aka, ‘he who needs no introduction’, truth no longer has any meaningful purpose. I content that a world without truth is exactly like in the Dark Ages when seekers of truth were summarily stoned to death or burned at the stake for not towing the prevailing pseudo-truth. Power be to the infallible. But humans among all God’s creatures, are the least