rant · moment 10 of 12
How Early Social Media (MySpace/Facebook) Felt Different
from Perez Hilton, Trump’s Lies, & Data Center Detonation | The Tim Dillon Show #507 · #507
5 min
Tim reflects on the earlier, less algorithmic era of Facebook and early Instagram/Twitter where you knew who posted what and could just say 'fuck you' to people you disagreed with, contrasting it with today's purely negative, programmed experience.
- Tim contrasts early social media (Facebook, early Twitter and Instagram) with how it functions now—it was a way to reconnect with people you knew, not algorithmically driven.
- Early social media made you angry, but you knew who wrote the things you disagreed with and could contextualize it—there was familiarity to it.
- Social media now has a negative impact on people's lives almost exclusively—drop-shipping courses, vacation envy, political rage, rewritten history.
- Very little of current social media is actually useful, and it's hard to connect any benefits to your life unless you want to go insane.
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