Moot: Social media is bad for us. Affirmative team captain’s presentation. Social Media Debate, 2010
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Moot: Social media is bad for us.
Affirmative team captain’s presentation.
Social Media Debate, 2010
Which would you prefer?
1
2
Which would you prefer?
2
1
TV dinners
Fat
Spotty
Antisocial
TV dinnersTV dinners
designed to con our taste-buds
ultimately unsatisfying
designed by businesses to maximise their profits
Social Mediais the TV dinner of media.
Social media
easy to consume
foisted on us by businesses and SMDs
ultimately unsatisfactory
seemingly beneficial
are awesome.
Social Media
is awful.
Social Media
Social media are
Social media is
Social Mediais a set of tools and websites that feel like the empower us as individuals by enabling conversation, transparency and all these good things - but they just provide a TV dinner version of a real meal. Addictive and bad for us.
Social Mediais bad for me, bad for business and bad for the world.
Our moot:
Food revolution
Slow-food movement
Farmer’s markets
Organic, natural, preservative free...
is not a revolution.
Social Media
Big business
in sheep’s clothing
Traditional media
in sheep’s clothing
Social media
set of inane tools
restricts how we talk and collaborate
ultimate control still with business
illusion of control
The internet
new ingredients
new recipes
MSM have stolen them and pre-packaged them into “social media”.
That’s not community
This is community
That’s not conversation
That is conversation
That’s not engagement
That is engagement
Liking
Friendship
PrivacyFame
Collaboration
Content
Support
CharityIntimacy
Gambling with our happiness
That’s not healthy
That’s not empowering
prove to us that somehow all this facebook flatulence, twatter bleeping and blogger blathering is good for me, or society, or any but the most old-fashioned and manipulative of business?
So, negative team
SMDs are playing into businesses’ hands by telling consumers they are empowered by social media. They are not.
We need to avoid bad businesses’ pre-packaged social media diet, go back to the raw ingredients and “cook” for ourselves.
History is changed by people who get pissed off. If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives.
Do not under any circumstances consult anyone who (a) is fascinated by computer games (b) tends to describe silly things as "totally cool" (c) has nothing better to do except fiddle with these damn things night after night.
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