[HN Gopher] Yale study finds social media 'likes' train users to...
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Yale study finds social media 'likes' train users to act outraged
Author : hochmartinez
Score : 75 points
Date : 2021-08-13 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.slashgear.com)
| wpasc wrote:
| dang, the article from yale.edu is just a few links down.
| possibily benefit from merge with that link? the yale.edu article
| has more to it and is the source institution
| norov wrote:
| It is not just social media; it is the way our society is
| structured. Even if social media did not exist, the press would
| still reward people who act outraged. Just look at newspaper op
| eds and cable TV talk shows with discussion panels. Sports fans
| know that ESPN sells outrage and living vicariously through
| athletes/celebs as a business model.
|
| The crux of the issue is that society rewards attention whoring
| behavior. I would love to see our leaders promote more "do, not
| tell" behavior.
| TrackerFF wrote:
| Outrage culture has to be one of the worst mainstream aspects of
| "normal" social media interaction. Then it spawned cancel
| culture, which went completely off the rails (IMO).
| schneems wrote:
| > cancel culture
|
| IMHO "cancel culture" is just "consequence culture."
| Unit520 wrote:
| Outrageous, this can't be! But seriously, it is saddening
| sometimes to see so much mindshare and engagement wasted on
| poorly thought out "solutions" to whatever issue is currently
| trending on Twitter. Even worse, the constant social media
| outrage machine seems to reduce the inherent kindness that most
| people have in them (before discovering Twitter).
| hoppyhoppy2 wrote:
| See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28174533
| saltedonion wrote:
| Conforms to my personal anecdotal evidence on hackernews
| smackeyacky wrote:
| It seems that the problem is more insidious than this study hints
| at. We know from the behaviour on social media some morally
| righteous outrage is satiated by furiously liking or sharing
| something that you might agree with, but most people just harumph
| and move on once they've satisfied their itch to "do something".
|
| However there is a certain element in society that gets truly
| over-stimulated by this stuff - the over-amplified likes and
| shares are making it seem like the outraged community you are
| aligned with is much larger than it actually is. Or more
| precisely, the number of people actively engaged and willing to
| undertake actions to back up their likes looks much bigger than
| it actually is. This pushes our over stimulated friends into
| over-reactions.
|
| This has now fomented a lot of extreme acts - hitting the
| streets, burning stuff, occupying buildings, safe in the
| completely misleading knowledge that your in-group is much larger
| than you think.
|
| The outrage machine has been an interesting social experiment but
| now people are getting killed because of it and it's probably
| time to nuke Facebook and Twitter from orbit unless they start
| taking moderation seriously.
| xwdv wrote:
| Nuking platforms isn't the answer, the real answer is to
| educate the populace to recognize such phenomenon and train
| them to not be misled. Otherwise new outrage machines will just
| be created.
| smackeyacky wrote:
| I like the idea, but people seem very resistant to things
| like being de-programmed from Qanon and the like. A lot of
| the anti-intellectualism that underpins vaccine refusal is
| grounded in a deep mistrust of authority. It will be quite
| difficult to achieve without stomping on a lot of sources of
| misinformation, which in this age is like playing whack-a-
| mole in a 10,000 acre field.
|
| However, deplatforming seems to work. Nuking the platforms
| doesn't seem too extreme to me given the harm they are
| causing.
| dionidium wrote:
| I initially thought this was saying that train passengers were
| more likely to be manipulated by social media toward outrage,
| which probably rings true to anybody familiar with transit
| twitter.
| davesque wrote:
| Makes me miss the days of phpBB.
| holler wrote:
| This is precisely why I opted to exclude voting and "likes" from
| Sqwok (https://sqwok.im).
|
| From the outset I wanted to build a discussion site that was
| entirely focused on live conversation, without the gimmicks that
| have become so ubiquitous across the social media landscape and
| beyond.
|
| In the real world we signal our approval of a conversation by
| either engaging or walking away. Other people sense our liking of
| it by seeing our engagement, not a cheap binary sticker we throw
| up.
| N1H1L wrote:
| Years back, when Cracked used to be decent, there was an article
| by John Cheese, which I forget now, wrote the most profound
| sentence that I have ever read in my life:
|
| _Anger is addictive_.
| carabiner wrote:
| Might be this: https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-anger-management-
| tips-interne...
|
| > The difference, according to the people who study this sort
| of thing, is recognizing whether your reaction is designed to
| actually help you fix the thing you're mad about, or just
| satisfying the adrenaline and dopamine rush you get from
| lashing out (the latter, after all, is what makes anger so
| addictive).
|
| Apparently it's from 2099, somehow retro-loaded to present day.
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