The obvious, known evil of social media is audience capture

= overwhelming incentive to please one’s audience and the ALGORITHM,

at the expense of one’s own beliefs and integrity and morality.

You become a mindless thoughtless zombie of feeding your audience and the algorithm what it wants

You also become insensitive and blind to anything that would contradict this project

 

But the less obvious one I discovered:

There’s a kind of BYSTANDER EFFECT taken to extreme among the digital bystanders .

Since everyone becomes this countless digital bystander…

…their humanity becomes diluted

People become just AVATARS, or maybe reduced to soulless targets for some gamified gain

And slowly everything becomes kind of UNREAL,

and then your natural HUMAN instincts atrophy

and there is no good or evil, as it’s all kind of not real

 

Of course ultimately none of this is a surprise = men are only as good their INCENTIVES

99% of men are only good when they are INCENTIVIZED to be good

some of them even fail at that =”evil” people

1% only maybe manages to ALWAYS be MINDFUL of what’s the RIGHT THING TO DO

 

Internet is of course a wild west of different incentives

Not yet tempered by centuries of culture or religion or politics

Incentives are wild therefore we are wild

 

Look no further than to a place like Twitter or Tik Tok, to see how ugly humans naturally are

Internet exposed us

Most of us are nothing without culture and system of good, collaborative incentives