come to think of it ... as saying goes "free cheese is in mice trap"...
presently well known social media and related networks did not just emerge by chance or due to sort of "evolution of human intelligence and freedom of speech, expression, trans-border socialization". I won't be at all surprised if after certain due diligent thorough research it would be proved by facts that all those social networks has been introduced to masses on purpose, very calculatively. for example, there are sufficient statistics providing evidences that a lot of (if not all) so called "colored revolutions" has been greatly influenced by social media or in many cases social media played perhaps even central role in certain events...
it is a long and broad subject... which requires research, reading, thinking, understanding or at least TIME and ATTENTION - THE most rarest commodities!
but at the same time, the whole irony is:
another side of side effects of social media - that attention and time span each person is able to afford to spent on particular bits and pieces of information is getting more and more short!
which simply kind of nullifies that requirement of spending enough Time and Attention on doing sufficient research on anything at all (i.e. "due diligence")
people are too overwhelmed with "Content" and all sort of information, flooded with all sorts of things. therefore they simply do not have enough of those commodities / currencies (Time and Attention) and less so desire and interest - to bother doing sufficient research on anything!
thus in the end people are transforming into species of Consumers of so called "Content" in form of various basic trivial pieces of information and very Superficial ideas and concepts.
and curiously that here on Steemit there are a lot of talks about "content indifference" - which I suppose reflects the overall state of affairs on internet. so, then what to talk about having any at all proper understanding of particular things sufficient for making their own decisions or actions... :)
but then, I guess still, efforts of individuals as yourself who try to share such information and create the awareness - are not yet entirely useless! :)
at very least, as saying goes "similar things get attracted mutually" sort of.
in the same way, people who are still able to dig deeper (than just superficial level / layer) are capable to find those similarly minded.
well, I hope so and prefer to believe it is so... :)
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