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The social media on its own and a big blown problem if I'm being honest. Even without the bots, it's been one hell of a toxic space. Then adding the influence of bots to it, I don't know what is going to become of the space what it's going to be capable of in few years time.

I was going to say the same thing. Social media is TOXIC. You have people coming together in one space who have very different worldviews and beliefs and this ends up creating hivemind pockets and if fuels things like sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on. It only created more destruction because it elevates people to treat each other horribly for not agreeing.

This is likely not being helped by bots but would still be an issue without them.

sourgrapes said:

I was going to say the same thing. Social media is TOXIC. You have people coming together in one space who have very different worldviews and beliefs and this ends up creating hivemind pockets and if fuels things like sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on. It only created more destruction because it elevates people to treat each other horribly for not agreeing.

This is likely not being helped by bots but would still be an issue without them.

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This is too true. The ability to be anonymous on top of the safety of a screen between people brings the worst out of people. The bots are just another ingredient in the hectic mess of social media.

You've got to have a tough skin to be able to interact on most social media platforms. The worst of it all has got to be Twitter with folks saying things they can't say to my face! The Bots simply amplified these issues, if you ask me.

Barida said:

You've got to have a tough skin to be able to interact on most social media platforms. The worst of it all has got to be Twitter with folks saying things they can't say to my face! The Bots simply amplified these issues, if you ask me.

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This is true. If you are on Twitter and have thin skin, everything will get to you. I have had people (when I was still on there) say the dumbest things to me when I didn't agree with them, they would resort to attacks on how you look, your grammar, and anything else they can find. Like a bunch of middle-school-aged bullies.

Barida said:

You've got to have a tough skin to be able to interact on most social media platforms. The worst of it all has got to be Twitter with folks saying things they can't say to my face! The Bots simply amplified these issues, if you ask me.

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This is why you hardly see me on Twitter. I can go on 3 months without opening my Twitter application. The level of toxicity on Twitter is probably the worst of all the social media platform combined. I can't deal with their madness.

Bots or no bots, people should know how to stay sane and know when to take a break on social media.

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This is true. If you are on Twitter and have thin skin, everything will get to you. I have had people (when I was still on there) say the dumbest things to me when I didn't agree with them, they would resort to attacks on how you look, your grammar, and anything else they can find. Like a bunch of middle-school-aged bullies.

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They are actually bunch of frustrated guys that are out to troll the rest of the users on Twitter. It's a shame that nothing is being done to ensure that certain words can't be used on that space. I only go to Twitter to read some news and that's it.

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They are actually bunch of frustrated guys that are out to troll the rest of the users on Twitter. It's a shame that nothing is being done to ensure that certain words can't be used on that space. I only go to Twitter to read some news and that's it.

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They are too busy suppressing anti-government and anti-LGBT stuff to care about anything else. Maybe that will change now that Elon bought Twitter but I highly doubt it. It will just get worse.

Bots are a HUGE problem. I read an article that well over 20 years ago, white supremacists were one of the first to go into the internet heavy because they saw it as a recruitment avenue as well as a way to sway public opinion. They have actual groups who set up computers to spam anything pro black for example. If you look at a lot of comments and click on the person, there isnt much. Also they do a lot of fake black avatars, they front like they are black.

I also now realize the music industry is far, far more rigged than I ever thought it was. Lil Nas X video had (when I heard about it at that time) 69 million views. Not the Old Town Road song but the video where he was moist AF.

I am like who the eff is buying his shit? You see the comments and they are all fairly similar. Also, who the eff is buying his music. Gay people aren't homogeneous. They like all kinds of music. There simply aren't enough gay people intersted in him to have his album go up so high. Also, in hip hop its known that white people rarely ever support any rapper who is not accepted, co-signed, by black masses. So, who the hell is paying itunes, etc, for his shit? Damn near no one. The record company and others have a vested interest to 'prove' an openly gay rapper is viable so they paid all kinds of companies wtih sophiticated bots to to buy his shit, comment and all that. I am 100% convinced.

It's a pattern that all social media platforms are taking a long stride into now and it's becoming a mess in my opinion. Facebook have been rigged so many of it and they have users accounts banned like hell. It's not like that even bothers me much because I'm not on that platform more often. It's part of the reason why Elon Musk is trying to pull out of the Twitter deal he wanted to purchase.

Bots are definitely a huge problem on social media, every once in a while I get fake profiles trying to add me. Plus I see them posting on local news pages posting spam. But I agree that social media is toxic even without counting the bots. Forums will always be superior to social media IMO.