Social media has become a Generation bashing forum
Gen Z social media is a cesspool of nonsensical economic claims. The Gen Z I meet and know in real life are actually bright and hard working – but the crowd on social media is not.
Social media: Emotional and Touching Videos are Often Fake
Touching videos, like this, of an elderly teacher reading a thank you note from a former student, who turns out to be her surgeon who has saved her life – are typically staged productions.
Public Apology Generator
When you screw up in public or on social media, here is a handy algorithm to generate your apology.
Social: Frequently shared photos are misleading
A misleading image is shared to indicate that cities used to be beautiful and now they are ugly.
Social: Telling a straight up lie for propaganda
Photos of people sunbathing are presented as an illustration of lazy American workers, cutting work. But that is not what the photos show – in fact, its college students just after the spring semester ended.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Social media is all fake – and its use is dying
Most everything on social media, especially involving influencers, is fake.
Social media propaganda poster has several errors
Another propaganda poster that is sort of embarrassing.
Are you being misled by emotional social media stories?
How fake emotional stories are being used for engagement farming on social media.
Today I deleted the Instagram app from my phone
Social media is dead. I was just late to figure that out. This week I deleted multiple social media accounts or apps.