09-07-2019, 08:08 PM
bystander - totally agree. Social media is turning people into zombies. There is no need to tell the truth anymore, just say something outrageous and you'll have believers and followers no matter what the reality is. The problem is, how is it countered? Social media and the nonsense it propagates is now accepted and it becomes hard for the average person to know who is telling the truth.
In the old days, you might rely on the newspaper or TV media to have independent journalists reporting the news, but that seems to be no longer the case. Education can counter it but that's too slow and has never encountered a situation where idiots can communicate with other idiots so quickly that things go out of control so quickly.
I don't know what the solution is, perhaps there isn't one.
In the old days, you might rely on the newspaper or TV media to have independent journalists reporting the news, but that seems to be no longer the case. Education can counter it but that's too slow and has never encountered a situation where idiots can communicate with other idiots so quickly that things go out of control so quickly.
I don't know what the solution is, perhaps there isn't one.