I have long noticed this on Facebook, where you see a post with like a math problem and some bait headline like 'only 10% of people can get the right answer' and it's something simple like (2+2) -1 =
And the comment section is awash in different answers and people who are wrong, arguing.
In the expat groups I'm in, it's even worse; people will be spreading incorrect information about migration procedures and then arguing. A simple question like 'can a foreigner open an account in X bank, will also turn into a thread of various anecdotes and what all i would call, 'all noise, no signal'
You might say, well yeah, FB is shit, but the same goes for YouTube
Take, for example, the song 'Somebody's watching me' by Rockwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
How many of the comments are threads about whether or not MJ did the hook on the chorus? Simple question, why is there even a debate? Did he do it or not ffs. And yet here we are. Then they're debating if it was autotune and if it was a thing in the 80s.
Then we're cooked when it comes to more complex subjects.
Maybe this is a human thing or an instinct people have to spout a load of bollocks without having the facts themselves.
What do you think? Maybe just human nature.
It amuses me to think that people like to correct much more than to help. If you need answers, deep or easy doesn't matter, pretend you know what you're talking about and say something nonsensical or stupid. You'll get a lot of interesting responses, and sometimes even start a fight. To connect to your speech, people like to feel like they're smarter than others.
I remember a Facebook group that just posted instances of people arguing and correcting folks in comments with fiery passion, arrogance and confidence, while being completely wrong. There were some funny nuggets in there.
"People incorrectly correcting people" or something like that
that sounds hillarious actually lol
It's definitely a nice pastime haha
people like to correct as a form of flex i think
Maybe it's (distantly) related to the law of triviality: the simpler something is, the more people add their opinion, simply because they can, additionally to simple questions attracting not the brightest people (my hypothesis)
there's truth to this, although even on complext subjects, you get armchair experts who dont have a clue.
worst is when there is a building video or somebody doing plumbing, you;d think there was an elite plumber squad in the comments all sounding off!
I find social media to be a platform for some people to release their pent-up frustrations since it is anonymous
even when not anon, it's s bit of a cesspit
It's human nature, but the natural thing we're describing here is greed, through clickbaiting.
greedbaiting!
For me is just the simple logic that people always need to have a word on something even if they don't know a dime about the thing they have opinions on.
I am noticing this behavior more and more in real life and online (even worse than in real life). And it bothers me very much, to the point I am getting mad and avoiding those people.
I am trying to be gentle, but this is not human nature. It is just egoism, disrespect, waste of time and so on. A kind of applied Dunning-Kruger effect...
online behaviour manifesting offline as we slide towards idiocracy
All these idiots answering "3". Everyone is so confident these days
Dead Internet Theory?
THAT is some deep creepy theory ahah
What? You read YouTube comments? How brave of you! 😅
i venture in for a glance every now and then lol
The median IQ is 100. Explains everything.
I have a theory that although a lot of it is probably meaningless engagement bait on Facebook, like those posts with easy math questions or simply "Share X if you agree with Y", there is this distinct genre of post that seems to target boomers or less tech savvy folks.
Usually goes something like "URGENT - Facebook is changing x y z on April 15, this means [something terrible] but you can opt out just copy paste this paragraph into your personal page"
I suspect those types are meant to compile a list of accounts that are
to target or exploit somehow.
Edit: sorry this reply started more on topic when I started typing and then went semi/unrelated to your main points. I'll blame sleepy time.
On topic though, maybe Facebook and YT comments need AI built in so all the comments can be
@Grok IS THIS TRUEinstead :POn this notes, it's a very good question. So many social Media users feels they know too much, instead of taking time to give straight answers to a particular question, they began to either ask you questions, some will fight over answers why some will give a direct answer and gently leave the comment section. It's my humble experience so far.
Yeah, exactly these days FB and YT are full of trash. Filled with AI contents and lacking orginal content in most of the post. It's far better to use SN to read and write or share some useful resources in SN.
Lots of love for SN and Bitcoin 💘
People like to be special and right more than they like each other.
Truth is not the goal of social media, getting advertisers is the goal.
Advertisers like audiences who are frustrated, searching, and losing hope so that you are more likely to click on ads and pay for a solution.
Because it's engagement based, rather than consensus based.
Many social media users don’t actually want to answer. They just want to debate, to promote themselves, or to push their opinion. Your question becomes an excuse for them to speak, not to help.
Some people just like to argue. We have them here on SN too
That's true! 😅
A contest of ideas can be a beautiful constructive thing (it is after all at the core of science and democracy) but some people find different viewpoints challenging and devolve to personal attacks.
Social media seems to accentuate this tendency.