Social Media is a D student
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Hello, all. I don't know if I will have a lot of time to write this one, but whatever, Something brief I want to talk about in this blog post is the silly way society believes in smart technology.
More specially, that our modern age is a haven for higher learning.
In reality, it is, but also that's not what most use the internet for.
As much I myself enjoy rewatching topics I have already studied in school, or maybe watching someone work in a field I also work in like 3D modeling, there will always be a divide between learning content and tutorials, and the average youtuber attempting to strike popularity by sharing their insight about a topic.
I see this so much, that it's almost changed my view of certain public websites like Youtube as nothing more than a place for the dumbest of users to reach fame through speculation, gossip, conspiracy, or just plain ol' mockery activism on any given topic.
Narrow-minded ignorance is what I would call our current knowledge in today's content media. That easy-access doesn't always equal educated minds as much as it means easier ways of widespread ignorance.
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As someone that has spent years watching videos on Youtube, have gone through almost all types of video genres and notable virals, I find myself not necessarily in a cynical and gloomy view at my current stance, but in a realistic approach in how the internet behaves in a consensus to what is socially acceptable online.
As it is today, the common trend follows most on other social media sites where people are easily offended, or have some savior complex to gather and cancel others, as mentioned in my last blog post.
But all this ties into where we are as a social hivemind on the global internet where surface-level understanding is more common in our impact for this advancing digital age. And if it's not widespread ignorance that is dominating videos, posts, and comments on social media, then it's also going to be the unilateral approach we all display in attempting to upvote or downvote our shifting bias on any site, user, or incoming news.
That the only reason I am making this post is because I am dishearten about vox populi, convictions by the public, and the bias views that overwhelm the internet because of younger and younger users that enter the online discourse.
I truly believe that a lot of ignorance derives from a younger audience in the online space as much as it is a result of low educational adults and uninformed bystanders.
That the ignorance that is most likely seen on sites like Youtube is often supported by either of those factors; either young on a topic, uneducated about the deeper issues, and or blind bystanders that follow onto a herd mentality.
Yet, can that really be surprising? When a person has the experience as a scholar and not just a person passing their time in school, are these results really groundbreaking?
If in real life less people entered a library than the amount that enter cafeterias and club events and hang out sessions, is it really so surprising that our current internet space is so flooded by the uneducated?
Take for example the topics in History. How many know the generic leafs of historic pages than they do with deeper roots, events, figures, politics, literature, and dates?
That's why I say when it comes to being online, on sites like Youtube, don't be surprised to see the average commenter with hundreds of likes to be a conspiracy theorist or an emotional reactor.
In fact, don't be surprised more videos that make the front page to be full of skepticism, conspiracy, disapproval of an event, or a history re-teller with their own concluded bias, especially on modern history.
Anyways, I think I've said enough about what I was reflecting on. Like my last post, the internet can be a place where the nitpick internet police and cancel culture will disrupt, but also now with this blog post I have shared that there is also a widespread ignorance that likewise disrupts, distorts, and often mocks the reality we know of already.
And is that so farfetched? Whoever said that our branding of "smart phones" and faster internet speeds actually correlate to a more educated world? People may use the internet like how people used the good ol' libraries, but our easy access has really been dumbed down to learning the first thing that we see when we use search engines, or even worse, based on what we hear from content creators as the true, non-bias facts in a topic.
I would say, rather our current digital age only reflects who we are as people. That education is as always not just an uphill endeavor, but it is also to those that choose to spend time as a scholar. That's why I say that an educated mind is often shared by adults and older because it takes time to mature out of teenage rebellion and understand and research more about an issue. Even if you are a bright teen, it still takes time to develop a deeper understanding and reflection into what it is you know about in order to contemplate the why.
And while many do find joy in using the internet to learn and develop their education,
most will use the internet to voice their ignorance, spread their narrow knowledge, and ultimately taunt other's to waste their time correcting their mistakes that they should have known if they were actually studied in a subject.
Oh, and also canceling you if someone just doesn't value your content.
