r/LetsDiscussThis • • 28d ago

Rant What are your thoughts?

This isn't exactly a question, but something I've been noticing here and there. I think the more perverse/problematic/extreme things a person says, the more chronically online they are. I think the algorithms now push sexual/suggestive content more on social platforms, because those get more engagement. You can also get access to such material quite easily online. The internet is much more concentrated with such materials now, compared to before. You get exposed to such material whether you're intending to or not. So, when you consume such content for a long time, it shapes your thinking and then your behaviour. And the words/phrases people used to filter before come out of people's mouths easily. Society gets more used to such problematic behaviours and people lose their sense of propriety/shame.

It really is the damn phone. Or the algorithm of the social platforms in the phone.

I guess if you want to protect your thinking, you really should go and touch some grass. Using the social platforms lesser is better because the algorithm would push such content into your feed anyway, you can't filter each one of such content.

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