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Mark Zuckerberg Stole Grandma's Last Good Years

from Hantavirus Cruise & iPad Babies | The Tim Dillon Show #495 · #495

7 min

Tim builds out the idea that Facebook has turned elderly people into radicalized, schizophrenic addicts spending their final healthy years fighting strangers online instead of enjoying life, contrasting it with how other cultures treat their elders.

In this bit12 moments
  • Tim notes that nothing on the internet dies overnight, citing Yahoo and AOL still functioning despite decline.
  • Meta's algorithm proven to have driven people to suicide and encouraged serious psychological harm through focus on negativity.
  • Everyone knows someone who used to be fun and normal but became schizophrenic on social media.
  • Meta and YouTube lost a bellwether lawsuit over addictive design triggering anxiety and depression in teens, with 100,000+ similar cases pending.
  • New York Times article details how Meta's profit model trafficked in lies and division, suggesting the company may be entering irreversible decline.
  • If Facebook dies, national conversation might improve—though TikTok's supposedly inspirational content claim is questionable.
  • Young people aren't fighting about politics on the internet the way older people are; instead, older people dominate social media while bored.
  • Zuckerberg already created the metaverse without goggles—he trapped older people in a digital space where they fight about irrelevant things until they die.
  • Americans stick their elderly in nursing homes while other cultures keep them at home; America's version includes fight clubs and abuse.
  • Mark Zuckerberg stole the last good years of grandmothers' lives before Alzheimer's, trapping them on Facebook drunk and fighting strangers online.
  • The metaverse he created drives parents insane while incentivizing them to get crazier—that's how people get old now, their final mobile years spent shut in at home on Facebook.
  • This deterioration into internet-based decline has become part of modern aging.
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