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Have you been radicalized by Social Media?

How has Social Media affected your views?

  • Radicalized

    Votes: 5 13.5%

  • Still the same

    Votes: 29 78.4%

  • Became more moderate

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Changed most views

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    37
Skeptic Bob said:
Says the person with over 50,000 posts on this particular social media platform. ;)
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You think I listen to anything the rest of y'all have to say?
 
Ikari said:
You think I listen to anything the rest of y'all have to say?
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I sure hope I didn't evee give you that impression.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Says the person with over 50,000 posts on this particular social media platform. ;)
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This really isn't social media, it's a debate forum. Social media's primary purpose is to socialize, hence the name. DP's primary purpose is to debate, hence the name.
 
calamity said:
No. But, social media has certainly shown me that a large percentage of people in this country are incapable of understanding relatively simple things.
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It is debatable who is right. I have a theory on many issues, but I have not described all the points coherently yet.
 
d0gbreath said:
I've been radicalized. During Barry Obama's time at the WH, I didn't delete any right wingers. Even the loudest, most obnoxious Obama hater stayed in my friends list.

Now, every time a MAGA Trump supporter posts on my feed. <BOOM!> i delete them. It's fun to manage the herd.
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You mean it's fun to live in an echo chamber? My politically active FB friends are majority composed of the left. I prefer opposing POVs to the same.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
If anything, social media has helped prevent me from becoming radicalized. It prevents me from living in a bubble or echo chamber. It exposes me to opposing political views and forces me to constantly reevaluate the merits of my own political positions.
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I think you're different than many. A lot of people will block anything that opposes their POV.
 
SCitizen said:
It is -- about 10,000 smaller then Twitter. But still.
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Oh, totally. It's an infinitesimal slice of social media, but it still counts. It's people interacting with each other on the internet. It's the very definition of social media.
 
Popularity of any site can be measured here.

DP -- about 200,000 hits per month.
Facebook -- 23 Billion hits per month -- or 100,000 times more.
 
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SCitizen said:
Why is DP not Social Media?
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Because the purpose of social media is to socialize. The purpose of a debate forum like DP is to debate. Two totally different things.
 
Fishking said:
You mean it's fun to live in an echo chamber? My politically active FB friends are majority composed of the left. I prefer opposing POVs to the same.
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Yeah, it was fun driving. Riding shotgun, not so much.

I just come here for politics.
 
Cephus said:
Because the purpose of social media is to socialize. The purpose of a debate forum like DP is to debate.
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But people debate on Facebook and Twitter. Since these are large boards which can not be moderated like DP, the debates may be very confrontational.
 
SCitizen said:
But people debate on Facebook and Twitter. Since these are large boards which can not be moderated like DP, the debates may be very confrontational.
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But that isn't the PURPOSE of those sites. Debate is the PURPOSE of this site.
 
Cephus said:
But that isn't the PURPOSE of those sites. Debate is the PURPOSE of this site.
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But it is still a small Social Media portal -- receiving about 100,000 times less hits then Facebook.
 
SCitizen said:
I am sorry for repeating another question Here. In Real Life, people share views with our friends and avoid those we disagree with. On Social Media many people pay most attention to those whom they at least disagree with and at most hate. On Social Media the most controversial views get most attention.
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I don't feel right in voting on the poll question but I will say that I was much more moderate before coming here to DP and then realizing how absolutely loony the left really was. I was very naive and had no idea how crazy the left was. I'm "moderate right", "slightly conservative" and have voted for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. I knew the far right was nuts but the left is even more nuts than the right. It has been a very eye opening experience for me and has pushed me farther to the right than I had been.
 
The only "social media" I belong to is Debate Politics. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social media. Oops, wrong, I also belong to Minds.com but rarely go there. I have no desire, never have had, to belong to such sites as Facebook et.al.

As for changing my mind on what I think and believe...rarely going to happen. I believe and think the way I do after many decades of thought and, while I sometimes think "Hmm, that's an interesting way to look at it", I am not likely to change my mind because of it. To me, most things are simply black and white and I generally often fail to see shades of grey. If one doesn't want This to happen, then don't do That...simple really. Growing up my family being lower working class, I was raised to believe the Labor Party could do no wrong and voted accordingly for decades. Then I went to uni, looked around, thought some more and RAN to the right where I have remained ever since, shifter further to the right as I get older, and nothing...NOTHING will ever send me back to the dark side again.

So, no, social media will not make me change my mind on anything. I read a great description of people the other day...Merino Sapiens...and believe that is true of so many.
 
LadyMoonlight said:
The only "social media" I belong to is Debate Politics. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social media.
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DP is a small but one of the best Social Media. DP gets about 100,000 less views per month then Facebook.
 
SCitizen said:
But it is still a small Social Media portal -- receiving about 100,000 times less hits then Facebook.
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No, it is not. Just because you want it to be doesn't make it one. Purpose matters. Rent a clue.
 
Whatever our definition of Social Media is, it brings us into close contact with those we disagree with the most. Offline, people usually associate with those who agree with them.
 
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