Facebook: the land on controversy!

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I was watching a neat video of horses being groomed, but the comment section turned into a fight between people saying that the horses should be living free and domestication of animals is wrong, while the horse lovers were arguing with them. On another post today, it was a fight between vegans and people that farm for a living...

I mean, it's okay to have different views, but as I've said on here before, I don't like seeing pushing their views on others like this...

But at the same time, I can see why people have views like this, and it makes me question my own views, I keep thinking my views aren't valid and other people must know better than me...

Sigh...

So with pornography..... you have a dozen cans of cool-whip lined up and a couple busty models, overly made up and scantily clad stare at the canisters, look puzzled, and ask 'Whatever are we going to do with these?'.

Facebook and Twitter posts, any given topic, are just a preamble to social climbing by and large in the same way as a police officer pulling over a busty model, or a busty model college adjunct professor having a Ken doll of a college student who just isn't getting the lessons is a preamble to sex on video.

In both cases we're apes and we like to shag.

A really long-winded version of the above but written quite cleverly by Venkatesh Rao:

The Internet of Beefs
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t ... -of-beefs/

Facebook used to be nice when it came out. People were happy to be able to connect easily using their real names, in most cases. The more it went, the more division took place. The competitiveness out there, over populatiry or over being "right" has become intense. There are also many people out there to influence others. I stay away from Fakebook unless I have to visit a business page.

techstep's analogy to *anything* being the predictable beginning to an argument, because we like to argue is of course not wrong, but the question is ehy facebook is so good at stirring up disagreement, though so bad a settling it.

my guess is that the format is poorly designed for actual argument - it's designed for shouting out your opinion.
I assume, it's a more profitable business model for them to facilitate never ending fights - sponsored by ads - than it is to settle a disagreement and be done with it.
Open shoiting of opinions also invites everyone else to shout their opinion, which is probably the metric by which facebook places the ads.
I mean... it's all about the ad placement. Whatever is between the ads is costing them money.

Gosh. I moved. And my old computer died. Dont even know if I can get back onto my old Facebook account. But Facebook must have changed since Ive been on it like five years ago. I thought of THIS site as the debating club, and not Facbook.