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Social Media is Pornographic

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Not necessarily in the literal sense, but in a philosophical sense. In this sense it can be taken to mean that social media is all about empty forms, and not about deeply meaningful content. In the same way that pornography strips away the content of something meaningful to humanity and substitutes it for the empty contextless form, an image, a simulacra.

Social media turns humans into zoo animals.

The lack of privacy controls on social media lends itself to the potential for going viral in front of a global audience. How do you think your grandma would feel if you shared a personal family story with the world? Wouldn't she feel like it's cheapening the story? She'd probably prefer to save the story for invite-only dinner guests.

What fun is it to have over dinner guests for them to have already heard the story you told to millions of people on TikTok?

This will be solved on WeWrite through strict privacy controls, allowing you to set up a collaborative community for your friends or family or other close collaborators.

Even large group chats have this same pornographic on-stage feel. Sure, groups can split off into smaller groups, for an increased sense of privacy and comradery.

The fact that a "post" is a finished work, and not something constantly tinkered with, is one mechanism of this "isolation of the empty form" … if a piece of writing was constantly tinkered with, it would show evidence of the work that was put into it.

Not necessarily in the literal sense, but in a philosophical sense. In this sense it can be taken to mean that social media is all about empty forms, and not about deeply meaningful content. In the same way that pornography strips away the content of something meaningful to humanity and substitutes it for the empty contextless form, an image, a simulacra.

Social media turns humans into zoo animals.

The lack of privacy controls on social media lends itself to the potential for going viral in front of a global audience. How do you think your grandma would feel if you shared a personal family story with the world? Wouldn't she feel like it's cheapening the story? She'd probably prefer to save the story for invite-only dinner guests.

What fun is it to have over dinner guests for them to have already heard the story you told to millions of people on TikTok?

This will be solved on WeWrite through strict privacy controls, allowing you to set up a collaborative community for your friends or family or other close collaborators.

Even large group chats have this same pornographic on-stage feel. Sure, groups can split off into smaller groups, for an increased sense of privacy and comradery.

The fact that a "post" is a finished work, and not something constantly tinkered with, is one mechanism of this "isolation of the empty form" … if a piece of writing was constantly tinkered with, it would show evidence of the work that was put into it.

Not necessarily in the literal sense, but in a philosophical sense. In this sense it can be taken to mean that social media is all about empty forms, and not about deeply meaningful content. In the same way that pornography strips away the content of something meaningful to humanity and substitutes it for the empty contextless form, an image, a simulacra.

Social media turns humans into zoo animals.

The lack of privacy controls on social media lends itself to the potential for going viral in front of a global audience. How do you think your grandma would feel if you shared a personal family story with the world? Wouldn't she feel like it's cheapening the story? She'd probably prefer to save the story for invite-only dinner guests.

What fun is it to have over dinner guests for them to have already heard the story you told to millions of people on TikTok?

This will be solved on WeWrite through strict privacy controls, allowing you to set up a collaborative community for your friends or family or other close collaborators.

Even large group chats have this same pornographic on-stage feel. Sure, groups can split off into smaller groups, for an increased sense of privacy and comradery.

The fact that a "post" is a finished work, and not something constantly tinkered with, is one mechanism of this "isolation of the empty form" … if a piece of writing was constantly tinkered with, it would show evidence of the work that was put into it.

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