Recently, one of the gurus that I've kept up with for several years now had an email about how social media has changed. He started his email by talking about how more and more we interact with people through the glass of our screens.
And with the advent of artificial intelligence that interaction is calling into question whether we are interacting with real people or just machines.
It's a good premise. He started it out by talking about obsessing about ghosts. He even joked about how he could be an AI and we wouldn't know it. Which I found hilarious.
But I think that's why a lot of people just feel hollow and empty when they look at social media. They have to wade through all the commercial junk and then, even worse, they have to wade through their friends commercial junk because often people are posting about what they're selling or trying to do to make money and setting up parties to sell stuff.
He lamented about how so many social media platforms started out great but devolved into the marketing machines that they are. And how he wanted to have an app that he could either develop or get somebody to develop that would be like the dating apps but for different subjects. But that didn't devolve into the commercialized baloney that we have so much of today.
I enjoyed his email and I've thought a lot about it.
I think because we're so transient now and so able to skip interacting with our neighbors and even the people at our church, if we go to church, that we feel lonely even when surrounded by a mob.
Opinions are so inflamed right now that people are scared to even react to things, let alone express an opinion. There's genuine fear in the air and that fear is being used to herd people in directions.
Oftentimes it's down the sales funnel to part you from your money or down the election funnel to part you from your vote. I just wish that we could interact differently, and like he said, come together.
And I do that in my own life, in my small little ways. I hope you're doing that too.
Because together we can save the world.
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