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[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I really think something like social media or whole internet collapse is due to happen soon.

This is pure, concentrated copium.

What might happen is the continuation of what's already in course: the surface internet becoming more and more controlled and online life becoming more and more centralized into few giant social media sites.

At best, people might migrate in masse for the "deep web" and less centralized online networks, but even that is farfetched.

[–]PriestTheyCalledHimBisexual 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True. Most people at least over 40 or even mid 30s and some in late 20s have gotten burnt out with social media and the constant non-stop barrage and distraction of it, yes a lot of people were on it when it was new but a lot of the super early people who would now be called proto-"influencers" are no longer on it, or have long since moved on. Southpark back when it was still funny and made fun of everyone and everything had an episode about this with former internet/youtube stars.

My grandparents and parents told me it was like this with film, radio, and later TV.

[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can see an AI takeover, not in a malicious sense, but in the sense of making the internet basically unusable just because it's filled with AI chatbots just talking to each other nonstop, and that being the thing that "takes down the internet "

I have hope that, as a society, we would push back against social credit scores and a Cyberpunk-esque corporate takeover of our lives. But then, I also wouldn't be surprised if people were like, "Yeah, Google's recording my thoughts and my eye implant footage, but I have nothing to hide and it's so convenient to get my calendar right there on my HUD."

I definitely think the internet is going to play a pivotal role in societal collapse in some form, though.