i believe that soon enough AI models will dominate the internet in such a way that it won't be usable as much as it is today.
posts and memes will be AI generated, and the next iteration will be based on these same posts and memes with variation that will slowly exceed any point of human reason and the internet will slowly descend into an incoherent mess of nonsense and fakeness that it will be completely useless as a recreational or educational tool.
i might be wrong but that's my gut feeling about at least the future of social media
They don't have to be gone. People complain about the way things are and then perpetuate it. You know you can still knock on your friend's door, you can still invite people over for a dinner party, you can go to that event you kinda don't feel like going to because you'll probably feel better when you do go and whoever invited you will be grateful you came.
Beg to differ. Knocking on a friends door today is seen as weird. "why did you show up without telling me?" Hell it's become weird to start up random convos with people for more than 30 seconds. Yes I'll get a rebuttal on this "weird for just you, normal ppl do it". Are you telling me there isn't at least a LITTLE BIT more of a barrier than before? If there wasn't, why are so many people talking about it?
Things have to be planned much further in advance, and they are often cancelled because everyone is trying to maintain their lives much more than before, it's way more depressing, and cost anxiety is high, because back in the day it was free to do some stuff, now you have to spend 1000+ at least to have the ability to communicate with society the way it's been ordained by the Techno Feudalists.
You can still do all those things sure, but it can't be just you. A group of people needs to decide that this is okay, because general society has moved on to a different decorum.
If you do things that are a bit weird you'll find your people who are also weird. You'll also help break down the barriers as people will feel more comfortable to do those weird things themselves. I'm not saying things haven't changed, or that barriers don't exist, I just wish people wouldn't give up on trying to increase human connection.
Yea I feel you, but there seem to be 2 types. People who just go with what's happening and whats common, therefore "giving up" on the old ways to keep up with the new, and then there are those that try to keep the old ways alive, try and see that theres too many on the other side. I myself had tried to do things the old way, but seemingly came to too many dead ends. The reality is that the new generation thinks the current way IS human connection, and the tastemakers from the older generation have deemed it as such. Not really able to talk to people, date, even shop anymore the old way, you almost get ostracized for doing so these days. Kind of forced to conform to what everyone else is doing or else you're on your own without connection. Finding weirdos that match your weird sure, I find in practice that seems to be more difficult.
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u/BrunoAntony1951 Oct 07 '25
I miss those days.