Disclaimer: Any truth, proper grammar, or correct spelling is entirely coincidental
With facebook and twitter and some other social unsocial sites the elite media likes to refer to this phenom as the Social Internet or Social Networks. Even before this phenom, the elite media hypnotized America to think not just that Google is a place for search but that Google is synonymous with search. They did this by repeating the word Google a zillion times a day on the different cable stations and talking about how great it is. Never mind that the search engines that came first were just as good or even better. I know, opinion, but that is my opinion.
Google did a lot of bad things as they took over the internet but one of the things they did was that they empowered haters and spammers to rank websites through linking. Why did they do that? Did they do it because it created such great search results? No. They did it because they wanted their ads and paid search to be superior to their organic search. After all, other great search engines that came before it were perfectly good at search, but they couldn’t make money.
Since a lot of webmasters thought they could game the system and were part of the system they helped the elite media create the myth that google’s organic search was superior. Rather than joining with those of us who said google was stupid they joined with the elite media singing the chorus of how great google is. In a way google was a social / unsocial system but spread across the known internet. This was different from AOL that was trying to be both an ISP and a walled social unsocial garden. AOL wasn’t so much doing that because of any agenda. It was just part of the AOL evolution from being an ISP / and information service like the then GEnie and Compuserve and some others. AOL was also a search engine but it operated its search almost like an after thought.
Now here comes Facebook that is now trying to evolve from a Walled Garden Social Unsocial site to also being a connection to the broader internet. It is following the google example by allowing its link farm to be valued by the unwashed masses of manipulators, haters and pretend lovers. At the same time it does its own manipulations to try to encourage advertisers to pay them money. There again they want to cripple the organic part of their system to the benefit of their paid ads.
I’ve never liked Facebook. That is probably because it reminded me too much of how Google began. When I hear the elite media repeating something a zillion times my reaction generally is “yeah, you aren’t going to hypnotize me, you f’ers.”
So anyway, now here is my downfall. I actually did like twitter as a microblog. I didn’t so much like the social unsocial part of it but I liked that I could put simple thoughts out there and with some linking. I always saw the follow/followers/unfollowers/muters/blockers and other a-hole manipulators as problematic but still the microblog part of it is somewhat addictive. And with the social unsocial part of it, I actually have connected with people I like.
But now for me it has become as worthless as google, facebook, etc.. The haters run twitter. And now twitter has added a formula to censor tweets based on the behavior of not just haters but hatebots. My main account is now being heavily censored so the time I spend on twitter is pointless, but even knowing what I know it is still addictive.
It is kind of ironic that the internet became a place for those of us who aren’t really very social in life and then the so called Social Networks took the internet over to our dismay and revulsion. Now it is all about money and the so called popular people who many of us have spent a lot of our lives ignoring at best and disliking at worst. It is the power of the elite media to now even rule the internet. For many of us it is a sad state of affairs. But you are unlikely to ever hear those in the elite media discuss that part of the internet story.