Swingers
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I was thinking the same thing dude
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Iāve begun the summer packing process
Itās been 20 min and Iām already 1/3 done
I love not having stuff
My 7 and 10 year old went down, and later back up 14 flights of stairs today without stopping. Might be easy, not sure, but I was proud of them!
I confess the leg pump I got had me feelin extra joozy in dem 6ā Patagoniaās
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I really gotta stop redownloading TikTok, that app makes me extremely wrathful. These forums on the other hand, they bring me peace. Except for that goofball political section.
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I confess Iām going to take 3 days off this week and skip conditioning
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Just staying away from social media in general is a best practice. This is the only form of social media i partake in after deleting MySpace, Facebook and eventually Instagramā¦ makes you a better person.
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But how are you finding new music? I for one wouldnāt know which CDs I would like to buy if not for MySpace.
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Iām old enough that it took me a solid minute to realise this was a joke. No, the CD reference didnāt clue me in like it should have.
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Mark Twight (et al) did a podcast about social media and trying to find the positives in social media and about all they came up with was: connecting more easily with people in specialist, solo passtimes and making money. That sits pretty well with my experiences and opinions too.
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Do you mean this as in you agree these are the only positives to come from social media?
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The only positives iāve seen, yes.
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Social media is also a fantastic misanthropy validator!
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Also further proves confirmation bias to the extremesā¦ Itās basically the root of the USās polarization, in cahoots with MSM
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I have to significantly disagree with this sentiment, but will concur that it currently does a fantastic job of perpetuating it.
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Iād love to hear your argument for this, if youāre interested in having the discussion. Iāve been considering starting an off-topic thread to have a conversation about the predatory nature of social media, but I wasnāt sure the interest in the subject on this forrm.
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The polarization (or perception thereof) existed long before modern social media. I was studying it in undergrad before social media was of any significant presence (at that point facebook was still limited to University students). Thereās always been a vested interest in portraying such polarization.
A great read on that is " Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America" by Morris P Fiorina.
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I confess that Iām extremely grateful to have grown up in an adolescence much more similar to my father in the 1960ās than my kids in the 2010ās.
I only lived just over 10 years between being a teenager and raising a teenager and the difference is astonishing.
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Things were a lot simpler for Ponyboy and Johnny.
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Okay, Iāll concede that polarization has been happening since before social media, but I also think we could agree it has raised in itās intensity.
Social media I think is the largest social factor change that could be pointed to that would have affected this in such a significant way. Most of their algorithms will feed you content you want to consume, so most will be given recommendations that will only further your views in whichever direction they lean.
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