The New York Times tells us today that social media is rife with testimonials from women saying they've quit using birth control pills because of all the side effects. However, in a development that should shock no one, an analysis of actual data shows exactly the opposite:
Usage has been steadily trending upward in the United States; 10 percent of women had prescriptions in 2023, up from 7.1 percent in 2018. The analysis looked at prescriptions for the pill that were written and picked up. Even among those aged 15 to 34, who would be most likely to see negative social media posts, Trilliant found prescriptions had increased.
When are people going to learn?
- A million likes on TikTok means nothing. It is literally background level noise.
- Social media is practically designed to highlight complaints. Griping and bitching will always be its most popular activity.
- Social media reveals what we're like; it doesn't shape it. In nearly every case, it simply makes public what we've been like all along.
If there are millions of women complaining on social media about the side effects of birth control pills, it's because there have always been millions of women who suffer these side effects. Some of them keep taking the pill because the side effects are fairly minor, while others have quit because the side effects are severe. A sudden surge of attention on social media merely reveals this. It doesn't mean anything new is happening.
Bottom line: social media is great for tracking the latest dance trends. For anything deeper or more important, it's crap.
A new jumping-off point: social media is a large chunk of Enterprise Autocomplete's diet. It is so valued that "Open""AI" (it is neither) is paying 9 figures to Reddit for their firehose.
However you choose to value spew from FB and Xitter and whatever else, keep in mind that's all roughly isomorphic with your newly verbose robot pals.
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You should add "Never trust social media for anything more important than new dance trends" to the bucket of quotes you display at the top of the blog masthead.
May 16 (Reuters) - An Uber driver convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting a man taking part in a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 was granted a full pardon on Thursday by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
I learned during the era of my back operation that the internet comments were a bad source of information on the results of back operations. That was around 1996-97. People with good results don't comment. Otherwise with folks who had an unsatisfactory result.
My result was not as expected as 6 weeks recovery stretched into 2 years with only a 80% recovery. I did not comment on the internets. Now in my dotage, the post op results are returning.
This is consistent with an aphorism popular in the customer service community:
"A happy customer tells a friend; an unhappy customer tells the world"
I used to trust Myspace, but then transitioned to Facebook for a while until it got stodgy. So it was natural to get on Reddit, which was where the action was. But Twitter beckoned, and who could resist that cute little blue bird? Membership there surged. Alas, it was unsatisfyingly remote, so I looked for, and found, something closer to home: Nextdoor, which held my attention, especially the complaints about rude cashiers at the grocery store. However, the triple threat of Pinterest, Instagram, and Snapchat enticed everyone to go move on. Unfortunately, dividing social media into thirds was not the way to go, which is why Google+ made inroads, except for the horndogs who preferred Tinder. But over time, that got old, and Gen Whatever-the-latest-letter-is thought it was uncool. The fresh new face was TikTok, with their irresistible jerky cellphone videos. My journey ended there. Or so I thought. Many of us would have stayed, but the turgid drama (featuring Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg) birthed Threads, destined to be the most popular social media platform in human history. Finally! Our long trek is over.
p.s. The I'm-smarter-than-you weirdos at Quora could never be part of anything "social".
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Socially it should become unacceptable to treat anything on social media (specifically short clips ) as informational.
Like if someone brings up a tikity tok as anything substantial, they're treated like outcasts.
Social media is practically designed to highlight complaints. Griping and bitching will always be its most popular activity.
This would explain Trump's popularity on Twitter.
well, in a lot of situations the upper-middle class left comes off as having hearts that pump dust and stats through their veins
trump and hitler didn't gain power using powerpoints
Trump gained power because Comey is a chickenshit and Bernie Bros either stayed home or pissed away their votes on Jill Stein.
Hitler gained power because the Weimar economy was a disaster, which in turn was because the British and French insisted on continued WWI reparations during the Great Depression. Same thing that turned Haiti into a basket case a century earlier.
It had bugger all to do with the qualities of the actual candidates.
And let me point out that nature doesn't give two shits what you think she ought to do. She does what she does and if you don't accommodate yourself to it, too bad for you. That's the express route to exploding space shuttles and, let's say, raging pandemics.
hitler's ability to summon the masses to his cause was the ultimate source of his power and it had everything to do with his qualities as a candidate
he convinced a violent armed minority that he had solutions to their economic problems while the police and the court system, being sympathetic to his cause, refused to restrain him or his followers (see aileen cannon, greg abbott, et al)
when trump assumes office in 2025 and guts the civil service to fill the military, security agencies, and entire federal government with his cronies, the feckless democrats will fill their days whinging about how it's all so beyond the pale, unfair, and anti-democratic
and all of this has absolutely everything to do with trump's personality and his ability to motivate his supporters
then there are those who believe, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that the citizenry will rouse from their torpor and hand trumpism a crippling defeat at the polls
the ivy leaguers in the US media and their fellow travelers (like jim comey) believed this in 2016 so they spent their time attacking the presumed incoming clinton administration while ignoring the threat of trumpism, the deferential right wing courts and sympathetic law enforcement, all in the interest of objectivity and 'fairness'
2024 might not repeat, but it'll rhyme
Also, if you're learning things from anecdotes, you're stupid.
There's a whole clickbait media niche now covering what's trending on social media. Shit, half the stories on any news aggregating site now is just some version of "X [celebrity] gets torched on social media for comments on Y issue" or some variant thereof. And it's just a bunch of screen shots of various comments on X or Instagram. It's the new "One Weird Trick" trick.