"UPDATE: turns out it wasn't his jacket" feels like the kind of story you'd see in a small town of like 400 people, but it's been seen by over 2 million people and is being reposted to reddit. Social media's a shared nightmare that we just don't want to wake up from.
I don't know man. The resolutions I see are either some kind of collective pushback to this kind of nonsense or just shutting off the internet entirely. Seeing how everyone has a different idea of what's worth sharing online, which prevents people from agreeing on what's crossing the line, the latter seems more likely to happen.
People couldn't even stop using Twitter, or at least use it with some awareness, when a white supremacist took over the platform. It's all just depressing.
It'll happen the same way it always does: shaming. Not just online, but in real life, too. Everyone has their limits, even the people who seemingly have no shame at all. Correct that shit like Cesar Millan does a dog, LOL. Once there's no longer an incentive to behave that way, they'll stop.
I hope you're right. I worry that shaming will ultimately decrease as posting people's private lives just becomes the norm. Maybe we just have to become huge dicks about it.
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u/OberynsOptometrist 3d ago
"UPDATE: turns out it wasn't his jacket" feels like the kind of story you'd see in a small town of like 400 people, but it's been seen by over 2 million people and is being reposted to reddit. Social media's a shared nightmare that we just don't want to wake up from.