JerryBaumchen 1,489 #1 Posted September 12 (edited) Hi folks, Just thought this might be a good subject for discussion. I do not think it is 'a cancer on our society.' However, a fair amount of it is. Like a lot of things in our life, it is how one uses things. Thoughts? Jerry Baumchen PS) Forgot to add: Utah Gov. Cox: Social media is a societal cancer Edited September 12 by JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeWeber 3,022 #2 September 12 Just now, JerryBaumchen said: Hi folks, Just thought this might be a good subject for discussion. I do not think it is 'a cancer on our society.' However, a fair amount of it is. Like a lot of things in our life, it is how one uses things. Thoughts? Jerry Baumchen PS) Forgot to add: Utah Gov. Cox: Social media is a societal cancer If not in it's current iteration it would be some other tool that makes fools. We are stupid enough that being persuaded your favorite Mall is the best and the Malls on the other side of town are out to get you is more than possible, including the ensuing Mall Wars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,641 #3 September 12 I was just thinking how useful it’d be in evaluating potential jurors. Wendy P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 1,260 #4 September 12 Social media isn't a cancer but it discloses cancer in the minds and in the thinking of many. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 1,260 #5 September 15 It may be that Utah is the fuze Two arrested after incendiary device found under local Fox TV news van in Utah "Two suspects are in custody after an incendiary device was found under a vehicle belonging to KSTU, a local TV station known as Fox 13 News Utah. The incendiary device “had been lit but failed to function as designed,” according to court records obtained by CNN affiliate KUTV. The device was discovered in Salt Lake City on Friday, two days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, about 45 minutes south of the Utah capital." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,489 #6 September 16 Hi folks, Here you go: social media is where Americans have gone to process last week’s killing in Utah and is the chief tool his supporters are using to police those they feel aren’t offering proper respect. Charlie Kirk killing shows how social media drives the conversation | AP News Jerry Baumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base698 20 #7 September 16 If the medium is the message and we are the message of social media, then what has that medium sculpted us to be? Quote McLuhan. "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter[1] in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeorgiaDon 405 #8 September 17 Social media is a tool, it can be used for good or bad purposes. Like some other tools (firearms come to mind), it can change us by making some actions easier, more efficient, or even possible at all. Parachutes don't force us to skydive, but they make skydiving (at least more than once, as they say) possible if you choose to do that, and that can change your life as we all know. Some tools have more risk than others, but none are a cancer unless we allow them to have that effect. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
