A Lively Rant On Social Idiocy

"Dumb f**k's for giving the site their private data...you cannot stop me..."

- Mark Zuckerberg (Yes, an actual quote)

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I kid you not: that is an actual quote from Mark Zuckerberg, who, in lieu of conversation, stated in 2019 that his users are "dumb f**k's." Now, I have no real beef with Mark. After all, he meandered a trend MySpace set forth in motion nearly ten years prior.

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But this one is for those of you who feel the same way I do: social media is becoming a rather poignant issue, one where time seems to ethereally degrade from reality to irrelevance. No offense to Zuckerberg.

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After all, it takes a real man to play "second mover" when MySpace came about.

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But I am not here to insult Zuckerberg, despite my meandering necessity to do so (I promise, this will get relatively entertaining momentarily). Rather, I am here to discuss an issue that needs to be addressed: we are falling into a realm of psychosocial dissidence.

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Second Mover Companies

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Before I continue, I would like to remind you what a "second mover company" is.

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In lieu, a second mover company is one that takes an idea, makes it better (or worse), and then successively claims credit for it.

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Much like MySpace and Facebook.

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Now, before I get to my normalcy of rants and raves (albeit, my trademark moment), I wish to remind you that MySpace was not the first social media network.

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In fact, read this article about the first actual social network, which began in 2000. It was called "Six Degrees," and it reminds me of a recollection of my first experience with MySpace. When I was seventeen, I dropped out of high school.

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Thanks To MySpace

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Here is something you do not know about me: my career in web design began with MySpace. I learned HTML, a coding language, through MySpace.

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Yes, I learned web design and began my career at the tender age of seventeen using (you guessed it!) MySpace HTML. Now, times have ethereally changed.

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But this is not the point of the tale, dear reader.

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The point is this: we are becoming a psychosocial dissident of "click, run" mentalities. Now, to to the point of the story: what the f**k is social media and why does it suck so much?

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"Tis A Time For Choosing"

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"This is a time for choosing" - Ronald Reagan

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Social media has become a cloud of negativity. I ran into a rather interesting phenomenon last week when I waited for my grades to be...well, graded. I ended up from an Instagram story to a live feed of a young woman. Said woman was rather poignant.

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I noticed the eccentricity of what we are becoming: a predominant and isolated phenomenon. Said woman was on a live stream, and that live stream had a total of 231 viewers. She said vaguely: "What was it that I learned?"

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Oh, yeah, salmon skin is good for the heart."

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She followed up with:

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So, who wants to see my vagina?"

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No Thank You

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You would be surprised at how many people said: "Show me." My response was actually a belly laugh. This is what we are becoming as a society: a norm hellbent on digression. There is a movie called: "Idiocracy," which I urge you to take a moment to watch.

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It opens with a man who is set into motion in a government experiment. He is frozen in a cryogenic box, which, after a nuclear bomb explosion, ends up buried in said box for one thousand years. The story shows where we are headed: to a place far beside common sense, almost a whimsical world where "who wants to see my vagina?" is a common fa?ade.

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I say all of this to make a point: social media is not what you think it is.

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The Rise (And Fall) Of Freedom

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Mind you, this has no real point. I am simply rambling as I always do, hoping for a laugh or two from my readers. But when I logged into this Instagram live feed, I found something rather fascinating: we are becoming a relatively stupid society.

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Back to MySpace: Tom was not the first to create a social media craze. Zuckerberg was what many call a "second mover." Second movers take one idea, tailor it as seen fit, and forgo their own spin on things. It was not proprietary; it was not insightful.

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Rather, it was a stolen idea.

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I recall when my iPhone was updated back in 2014 when U2 partnered with Apple to release a free album. In turn, Russia actually sued U2 for doing so. This was not the state of freedom we once believed, and I guess the point of all of this is simply said:

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We are becoming a rather dumb society.

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Now, not to say social media is a bad thing. After all, who would not want to see this woman's vagina? Well, I did not, and that is the point: what the [beep] happened? For starters, society is based on a predominant sufficiency: we are becoming rather stupid.

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Isolation breeds contempt, and stagnant time is a breeding ground for regrets and wrongdoings. So, as you read this, guess what? You are tallying on the back of a social network. I cannot tell you how many times I have received unsolicited invites to online events, random InMail from individuals trying to get me to buy from them.

I always follow up with a single sentence: the automated:

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"No Thanks" button.

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No Thanks

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Once again, "no thanks."

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I feel we are becoming a third-mover society. We are beginning to witness the fall of intelligence. A study in 2019 found that the human IQ is actually going down.

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I could not agree more. When did the question move from: "Social media is a good thing" to "Who wants to see my vagina?" Well, it is a simple answer after all: we are becoming dependent on post-pandemic nostalgia, and we are failing to succeed.

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Somehow I ended up subscribed to an Instagram feed that is called (name here, I will keep it confidential). Every three hours, they post the same thing:

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"Porn is causing success to fail."

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...What?

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Mind you, their posts get 50 "Likes" or whatever social currency you decide to adhere to. Yet, it is not porn that is causing IQs to retreat to isolation. We are becoming a nation (rather, a universe) for a breeding ground of dissidence. Why would they say that?

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"That thing between your legs, dear, does it bite?" - Freddy Mercury

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I leave it at this: we need to begin to re-socialize ourselves. Not on social media; not on Instagram; not on Facebook; not even LinkedIn. We need to all begin to recognize that it is not normal for a woman to solicit a Patreon account just to see her vagina.

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We need to be careful with our words, our choices, and our voices. Do not fall victim to this. We seem to be succumbing to stupidity, and with that said, no, I do not want to see your vagina, dear. I want to see you getting an education, receiving a real job, and not relying on your social norms. We need to escape this nest egg of isolation and get back into the real world, where time does not stand as still as it does on social media.

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Begin to isolate yourself from social media. I did so for four months, and guess what? I feel smarter. So, what was the point of this? To remind you that there is a world outside of this mess. There are people you can actually talk to, and if you want to solicit sex, do what most Miamians do: do so on the street, because at least there you will have a social skill.

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That is all.

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Tomorrow, I promise to post something more interesting.

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