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'Stan culture' and unrealistic expectations

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'Stan culture' and unrealistic expectations

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Due to this social detachment becoming commonplace, it is extremely easy to develop parasocial, or one-sided, relationships with figures, especially those with larger communities and influence. People only see the manufactured side of the figure, the side they want to share with the public, and develop an attachment to that, but those on the relationship-forming end declare they are forming a relationship with the person, themselves. Many capitalize off of this for their benefits.

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Discussion-based learning is REAL, y'all!

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Discussion-based learning is REAL, y'all!

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History has shown, time and time again, that humans learn best from each other. All foundational knowledge has been expanded upon and built upon by other people. Social networking sites have not replaced this building-block system for learning and expanding knowledge; rather, it has made this building-block system more accessible and more widely known to the general public. That is beautiful.

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Though the Internet is both a safe haven for discourse and a cesspool of horrible takes, it would be a flat-out lie to claim it does not have its own built-in universal safe-havens. The same place that has absolutely abysmal political, economic, international news coverage...also has adorable cats, in one fell swoop.  The duality of the Internet and social media.

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Well, for starters, a black hole of time

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Well, for starters, a black hole of time

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As someone with documented issues with concentration, focus, and attention...this is greatly exacerbated by the proliferation of 'slot machine-like' social media platforms, where scrolling and refreshing is the norm. This 'time void' affects many users, not just ones with backgrounds similar to me, and this time loss is becoming a bit of a phenomenon.

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Put simply: as the discussion board article pointed out, there is a learning gap between educators teaching the next generation, and the next generation's knowledge of the Internet as a whole beast. This presentation serves the purpose of functioning as a helpful infographic, a bit of a 'too long, don't read' (unless one can commit to further digging) summary for the uninformed. Everyone can benefit from a bit of additional learning, especially when it comes to something as rapidly developing and expanding as social media sites and the Internet at large.

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The 'Chronically Online' Phenomenon: WHY?

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The 'Chronically Online' Phenomenon: WHY?

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Just as I mentioned earlier: many times, especially on social media, profiles, both of average people and popular figures, are just a summary of things people want to broadcast about themselves to the general public. Hence, with excessive Internet usage, the lines between real and fake, genuinely offensive versus inoffensive, right versus wrong, they all begin to blur. People who can no longer tell reality apart from their own distorted versions are referred to as being 'chronically online'. This is an important point to remember when partaking in discourse, because many times, those who fit this description are on the younger end of things and may benefit from additional education and support in communities across and off of social media.

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Due to the partially manufactured nature of social media personas, it can become exceedingly easy to detach from one's own morals, goals, values, and aspirations. Particularly if one feels a need to conform with the groups they are engaged in, it can become easy to pull away from reality.

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Why is it beneficial, sometimes, to connect?

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Why is it beneficial, sometimes, to connect?

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This is not particularly done to be manipulative, at least in the majority of those who take part in online communities. In my experience, there have been very few 'bad apples'; rather, people exist on a sort of spectrum from 'creating an online persona entirely', to 'completely oversharing their real life on the Internet'. My online persona, my artist persona...is very detached from me as a person. It depends.

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As someone who has been part of online communities and social media platforms from...an age that is very far below the Community Guidelines... I would say the key aspect of feeling a sense of community, in a sense, is how much you get to control who you are online. People present the best parts of themselves for others to see, because it is far easier to connect with the people you want to if you show exactly who you want to be. It feels like a roundabout way of saying "be who you are, but that's whoever you want to be", because that is exactly what you do when you enter online spaces, especially anonymous ones. It's a form of unconscious conformity.