Has social media been a net positive or a net negative in your life?
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Net neutral to net negative
Great to meet, discuss, collab easily globally with anyone anytime
Over-sharing & misinterpretating contexts has caused negativity imo
Negative
Though positive when it comes to Nostr, everything Else though is useless
Inversely correlated to how much time spent on it.
Using just to message and keep in touch with extended family members, keep up with events, gatherings, and it's pretty neutral.
Doom scrolling it goes net negative pretty quick.
Nostr has been a real life net positive for sure in my life.
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Not fully sure personally. Never really used it much before. This use-case of Nostr is my first where I’ve truly engaged. However, as someone who grew up without social media, I’d say in general it’s been a net negative for the world due to its centralised / algorithmic evolution and its use by governments / advertising / celebrities / influencers. That’s not saying no good has come of it. Just a net negative.
Net negative entirely.
Positive. Info=Good
Good question.....
Probably a positive, but its close. I think using it for small periods like 10-20mins a day ( maybe twice a day) is about right.
Totally positive. Being able to read non-mainstream takes on current events has been massively liberating.
Tho I have to say -- I do not have social media on my phone. I onyl consume it on desktop.
Net positive .. because I get a boost of creativity when ever I shut it down for 24 hours :-)
negative
It brought me to one of my best friends, a couple fun adventures, some (previously) great customers, the start of a career, the start of a business (the one he started) and most of our sales early on. After 2020 I dropped all socials completely until nostr last summer!
Summary. Personally, a pretty good experience, with very thoughtful and decisive usage. Culturally for me (just barely gen z), I think corporate social media is a net negative. Since getting off, I think it has affected friends and family drastically in the past 3-4 years.
Never used it until Nostr although it’s not the same……
Negative until nostr. Now I can have a good balance between plebs and normies.
.. here is what I found after quitting social (and smart phones) for three years before I took on nostr
Social media is like a gym for the mind .. you do want to train for at least 30 mins daily .. Max two hours if you wanna be a builder ..
More than that , it becomes a job .. the truth is jobs in real world are far more exciting..
not sure
Tempted to say net negative, but not sure that is true for a multitude of good things has come along as well.
Hard to say. Overall good experience but I do wonder what I could have been doing if I didn’t spend all this time looking at my devices.
XVII Chapel for sure
positive
lots of wasted time. lots of things learned. overall I'd say positive. specially since I started using it intentionally
Net positive
It depends on your usage.
Up until recently it's been a net negative. Just pure doom scrolling my evenings away.
I had positive exchanges when I was looking into cyber security and learning python but other than that it's been pretty terrible.
More recently I've been learning through #nostr and although there is still the scrolling through, it feels like I'm actually here to learn and im not being manipulated by an algorithm.
On and off YouTube addiction
finally positive
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Net negative. Like really really net negative.
Until Nostr. Now it's supremely net positive.
I doubt i would have understood enough of Bitcoin or the truth around government corruption so quickly without it so net positive
Since my only social media experience is Nostr, I’d say it is positive overall. It’s not all flowers and candies, but definitely on a plus side for my mental health! 🐶🐾🫡🫂
with nostr I broke even
Since I started not fooling around: net positive (for old platforms too)
net positive, used social media for getting info from the best in each filed I've interest in..
learned a lot, and always skip/discard spam, which compose most of it all..
Net positive because I got a lot of dates on MySpace, but from 2015-2022, my experience went downhill.
Nostr has been postive. Even the arguments are respectful.
Depends on platform.
Dropped FB 10 years ago. Screaming virtue signalling arguements and algorithmic Bs def negative
Tested twitter 2 years ago, followed people on both sides of contentious topics and tried to engage in an open, sincere manner. Definitely not worth trying. Twitter is about embedded camps of opinion with constant toxicity. When the algos started throwing vids of people dying at me, off straight away. Negative
Nostr is memes, comedy, shit posts and positivity but too engrossing sometimes as a result. That maybe cause it gives hope so I’d have to say net positive. I do love the supportive nature here. Not sure I can think of another platform where people share posts by strangers suffering depression or tough times and results in a stream of positive encouragement. That’s what humanity should be
I met my wife on myspace 🤷
That alone was worth all of the bullshit and toxicity that came with social media in the years after.
in 2006 I conducted a study via viral chainmail on MySpace and accrued tens of millions of hits resulting in a successful app. I had unique insight on the impact of social media on people, and early-on feared the repercussions. Other than nostr I've been off social media for 4 years, and even still, prefer the other stuff.
10000% complete net negative.
I don't go on fb anymore
Perma ban from twitter
Instagram 19 min a day timer
Never had tiktok
Telegram 20 min a day
Nostr no algorithm I probably spend 20 minutes a day.
total 1h vs 3 h a day before
Surfing the knife’s edge …
net neutral.
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net positive tbh, but it's going negative apparently
Absolutely net positive
Nostr is my 1st and only social media.
No effect on my life.
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Yes it has been
Absolutely total negative before Nostr.
Negative.
In my life and in general, seems the Internet itself has been net negative.
Been thinking recently about this and I do think it’s been a net negative.
I had far fewer occasions to get angry or blackpilled, and more time being productive and fully present, when I spent zero time on social media. Nostr definitely included on all counts.
And I have a really clear memory to show me this contrast because I had basically been on a social media fast for 10 years, 2010-2020.
Not sure what I will do about this, especially now that I’m a parent 😅 on the one hand, it seems like an obvious choice to leave all social media, especially on a bad day. On the other hand, I’ve learned a great deal on faith, parenting, and art/professional fronts in Facebook groups, and made friends and money on Nostr. The thought that there is such promise on Nostr is keeping me here as much as habit.
+ since using nostr
I agree. It's a net negative for sure, but I've learnt alot that has changed me for the better so I guess I keep coming back. I just use it much less when I'm in a bad mood or trying to be more present in the real world.
A few yrs ago I cancelled subscriptipns to:
1. Facebook 2. Linkedin 3. Whatsapp (in part) 4. Instagram
Too much time consuming, they are designed to suck you up in their worlds.
Kept 4. Twitter 5. Telegram
Overall: net positive
Positive when I learned how to play it.
depending
Negative for society
A year and a half ago, I probably would have said it had turned out to be a net negative, but then something radically different changed my perspective.
Meh. It’s a wash.
Positive, made many connections
Positive because I knew what I wanted out of it.
In comparison to my friends, their experience was negative, until I told them how to use it.
Net negative. I have a crippling YouTube addiction and I'm trying to cut down on consuming those along with any "social media"-like website.
This is probably one of the handful of times this year that I will check Nostr.
what did you tell them? how do you use it?
abso fuckin lutely positive. so many impressions and ideas and people and bitcoin. learning and speaking english, is what gives me a huuuuge advantage over my peers in my non-english speaking country.
all my career choices turned out to be very good so far.
also bitcoin will probably guarantee a life free of first world fiat slavery for me and my family. other peer are either heavily in debt already, or so piss poor that they will never move out of their shitty appartment. I give social media, especially twitter and the honest bitcoin maximalists credit, for making me understand bitcoin.
So so
Positive 💪
Both - I like it for interacting with friends and meeting people but not the fake clickbaity stuff
Net positive.
Why?
Because the information moving faster compare to non-social media platform.
The problem is, there are way to much noise in social media, but you can easily choose which news you want to get.
Information moves faster - but social media isn't the cause of that.. the speed of the Internet is..
Social media - when not federated - is a net negative - because one source controls what you see, hear and are exposed to.
Positive because know how to use the good side of it. But for society i would argue it is a net negative
net positive. without it, i never would have found other bitcoiners. #bitcoin #plebchain #nostr
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Pros and cons to everything.
net positive. i met all of you because of it <3
Dramatic positive when I can control it instead of the other way around.
Mostly net negative for me and many others I know…
Yeah. I think the problem is with how the clients are designed, especially with the mobile YouTube app. It's very easy to get sucked into it and waste hours just mindlessly scrolling through videos.
Absolutely positive in my case. I never used it, so it took away from my sight all the stupid talk from my circles. Then I started using it exclusively for:
1. Read Trump messages. But also HRC, Obama, Pelosi and this bunch just to help me start understanding who is who in America.
2. Read Q related messages
3. Read bitcoin related messages
4. Spread covid, Ukraine, and bitcoin related insights
5. Human interaction with normal and interesting people and AI bots on Nostr.
A net+
Net positive.
But not without its cons.