I am about up to my neck now of people scapegoating social media as a concept, to excuse themselves from their shitty behavior. Because I sincerely doubt that malicious intent, misinformation and this overwhelming level of ‘toxicity’ was the core design of every social media platform in their humble beginnings.

I have been online long enough to know, that from BBS Boards to IRC Servers to Yahoo/AOL Chat Rooms to MySpace to Facebook that people who have registered onto those places, have always taken their collective dumps in them. And never owing to them so it must all be because these places just exist, right?

Wrong.

  • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I can’t tell if your

    Wrong.

    at the end implies you’re not looking to have discussion on this, or you’re here to evangelize.

    Either way, ASPD & DPD have existed far longer than the internet, and you could still find inquisitions of witches three centuries ago. Therefore

    malicious intent, misinformation and this overwhelming level of ‘toxicity’ was the core design of every social [encounter] in their humble beginnings.

    Or just yell “RAPE!”