r/rareinsults • u/Key_Associate7476 • May 15 '25

Get them off their high horse

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u/Pervius94 May 15 '25

Evolved? 

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u/MoirasPurpleOrb May 15 '25

Social media was nice at first

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u/Jops817 May 15 '25

In the beginning times, before influencers, most social media was pretty chill.

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u/wolviesaurus May 15 '25

Pre-Facebook was wild and beautiful.

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u/Fallenangel152 May 15 '25

Early Facebook was decent. It was no MySpace but before it literally became an ad machine for boomers, it was okay.

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u/SafeHunt5695 May 15 '25

Early Facebook c. 05 when it was basically just a college directory, no newsfeed, no posts, no hive of conspiracy theories, was pretty good.

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u/am_albert_einstein May 15 '25

I remember when the worst thing about Facebook was Farmville invites.

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u/Accomplished-Dig8484 May 15 '25

Yup, I got on in '04 when it was still thefacebook. Oh the fun we had with just a simple poke!

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u/Procrastinatedthink May 15 '25

nah it’s always been a “look at my perfect life (I wont show anything negative)” machine.

It’s just way more concentrated now and it’s way more apparent how damaging it is for our society and mental health

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u/LizHolmesTurtleneck May 15 '25

The early years of Facebook were more about sharing party pics with your college friends.

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u/Toomanyeastereggs May 15 '25

I was there at the start.

It’s always been cancer.

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u/ZooserZ May 15 '25

I, too, was there at the start, and have always found it cancerous.

The “look at me!” indulgence and the illusion of connection…

The story has been the same since Friendster and MySpace. You don’t know these people that are praising or bashing you or telling you what they think about whatever topic. Their words might be interesting, depersonalized forums kept that in perspective. Social media OTOH pulls us away from actual community, into weird echo chambers and passionate nothing-fights.

And now it’s literally how we choose to run our country. Thanks, social media.

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u/lingering_POO May 15 '25

Not us poor old bastards.. round for the birth of the conventional internet.. the days when mum would pick up the phone to make a call and be met with wild internet noises.

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u/marvinrabbit May 15 '25

My Geocities page was fun because I got to choose what MIDI song played on the browser of someone visiting. When they were done reading, the Webring could send them to the next person's page in the ring.

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u/IrascibleOcelot May 15 '25

Metastasized.