1. Aumento del Uso y Dependencia de las Redes Sociales.
La pandemia forzó a millones de personas a trasladar gran parte de su vida al ámbito digital, convirtiendo las redes sociales en una herramienta esencial para la conexión, el trabajo y el entretenimiento, lo que llevó a un incremento masivo de su uso y a una mayor dependencia.
- I got in during the pandemic while i was stuck at home socially distancing. I had a post go viral and shot up to 15k followers in a weekend, became a habit until i got vaxed and went back to doing my day job.
- The pandemic was a social media accelerator. We made people stay home and essentially pushed kids into the internet at 5. Not saying we shouldnt have closed things down, but we are paying the price now.
- The pandemic made me very reliant on social media for human interaction because i was so alone and my mental health was trash. It was a hard habit to break.
- The pandemic isolation is important to note because it was a social shock that drove people to online socialization like nothing ever has before. Social media across the board had its biggest boom right then.
- The pandemic pushed a lot of things online. A lot stayed online. This dumpster fire democrazy will probably push more online.
2. Deterioro de la Salud Mental y Toxicidad Online.
El aumento del tiempo en línea, combinado con la sobrecarga de malas noticias y la exposición a contenido conflictivo, contribuyó a un deterioro significativo de la salud mental de los usuarios y a un incremento de la toxicidad en las plataformas.
- I never fully appreciated how badly the pandemic broke some peoples minds. Imo social media has morphed from an echo chamber into a vector of mental illness during the pandemic. The human mind wasnt designed to handle bad news overload. Buffer overrun.
- My speculation is the pandemic gave people brainworms. This internet stuff. Its seeping more and more out irl and well. I am not sure if we are ready for that.
- The pandemic made the internet suck because it got flooded with people that brought a lot of anger and ignorance to platforms, that did not exist before. It has made me less online as a result because i dont need the frustration.
- The pandemic absolutely cooked so many brains in multiple ways.
- Social media broke our brains and gave yatzis an organizing platform. Then the pandemic finished the job.
3. Cambio en la Naturaleza de la Interacción y la Comunidad Online.
La pandemia alteró las dinámicas sociales, llevando a una mayor desconexión en el mundo real y a una redefinición de las comunidades online, que a menudo se volvieron más insulares y menos propicias para la interacción diversa.
- Yes, definitely post-pandemic, people are wired into their own online worlds and dont know how to connect with minds that take another direction.
- Tremendous culture shift due to online becoming unmoored from the concept of niche opt-in community spaces.
- The pandemic habituated a lot of people into spending too much time online with no family or friend networks to keep a sense of perspective.
- The pandemic desensitized a lot of people as to the fact that other human beings do exist and that for the most part the people youre interacting with online are people.
- Peoples ability to communicate has taken a dive and i sense more and more people are retreating into their own insular worlds. Maybe its a post-pandemic effect.
4. Proliferación de Desinformación y Radicalización.
El entorno de aislamiento y la búsqueda de información durante la pandemia crearon un caldo de cultivo para la difusión de desinformación, teorías conspirativas y la radicalización de ciertos grupos, exacerbando las divisiones políticas y sociales.
- Id end up doom scrolling, arguing with anti-vaxxers about politics. Its tragic how the platform changed.
- I will slow down when this pandemic of anti-science and far right authoritarianism subsides.
- The pandemic certainly didnt help either because it all got conflated with covid deniers and anti-vaxxer rhetoric.
- During the pandemic some people were just doing kegstands of online lies instead of baking bread and watching movies. And then they never stopped.
- The pandemic basically accelerated radicalization for folks who hadnt been innoculated.
5. Nostalgia por la Era Pre-Pandemia y Desilusión Actual.
Muchos usuarios expresan una profunda nostalgia por la experiencia de las redes sociales antes de la pandemia, lamentando la pérdida de la diversión, la libertad de expresión y la calidad de las interacciones, lo que ha llevado a una desilusión generalizada y al abandono de algunas plataformas.
- I miss pre-pandemic twitter, tbh. This place is better than current twitter but still isnt as fun as old twitter used to be.
- Ngl i do miss how twitter used to be. But i do have a sense of growing pains here.
- I miss pre pandemic when people had time to be productive and creative on the internet. Like there was a balance.
- I honestly feel like everything i liked or cared about slowly became irrelevant and died once the pandemic hit. Pre-2020 internet had a different, more lively atmosphere than it does now.
- I miss when being too much online was considered weird and niche because the normies sure fucking love to ruin the internet. The pandemic made everyone be online and now they want to ruin the space people have for their online communities.