At small social scales - neighborhood bulletin board systems, specialized mailing lists, Facebook when it was just some Harvard kids - social media could be a fun chat among friends. At large social scales it is a nonviolent, but at least as verbally nasty, form of warfare.
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"flame wars" were common in the bbs days.
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When BBS was formed from a random set of neighbors rather than from friends who already chatted face-to-face, they often didn't really get along, only a pretense. Best occurred in early internet when people with like affinities found each other and "forked" own little community.
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On the flip-side, due to the local nature of BBS's, regular meetups were possible. There was definitely community there. I made actual real friends from them. Old internet boards were certainly more focused and better for specialized subject matter. Car enthusiast forums etc
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I’ve been building “proximity networks” which are closed social feeds inside multi resident buildings. 500 max users can read anonymously but have to ID with photo and name to ask real-time favors, or borrow from sharing library. 80 communities live and no flaming.
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