As I was reading through my new blog books, I read a post I did on facebook more than 10 years ago. I never joined facebook or any other social media platform. Not then or now. I email and text, but that's the extent of my media socializing.
We recently watched three good documentaries on the subject - "Snowden", "The Social Dilemma", and "Spycraft". Worth watching in my opinion. It definitely confirmed how much I don't know about the internet.
I've said many times, then and now, the internet will be the death of us.
In that post of 2010, I mentioned that facebook had 400 million users (about 6% of the population) and today that number has ballooned to 2.7 billion (about 69% of the population). I was happy then to be in that 94% and happier to be in the 31%.
Back 10 years ago, users spent about 45 minutes a day on social media and today that's jumped to nearly 2 and a half hours a day. Which is the reason I never got on it to begin with. I know how addiction works. And I also know my head from a hole in the ground which can't be said for some who believe anything they read.
Of course today about 90% of the world has access to the internet where in 2010 that was more like 30%. Wow. No wonder social media has taken over. Access and ignorance seem to go hand in hand.
Well, it's certainly proved to be disturbing in many ways and dangerous in even more. I won't be logging on to any social media platform, but I am falling further into that percentage who don't and I am absolutely fine with that.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." -George Carlin
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