English writer, presenter and activist Stephen Fry has urged his fans to abandon social networks, comparing such platforms to 'dystopian' forms of government seen in 1970s sci-fi films such as Logan's Run and Soylent Green. In a 2,600-word essay, the comedian, who had over four million Twitter followers prior to deleting his account in February, also compared the 'surveilled conformity' of social media to the unreal state of society depicted in The Matrix.
>Who most wants you to stay on the grid? The advertisers. Your boss. Human Resources. The advertisers. Your parents (irony of ironies -- once they distrusted it, now they need to tag you electronically, share your Facebook photos and message you to death). The advertisers. The government. Your local authority. Your school. Advertisers," he writes. "Well, if you're young and have an ounce of pride, doesn't that list say it all?"
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/04/20/1431225/stephen-fry-urges-young-to-flee-dystopian-social-networks
You can't have friends in 2016 without social media. This is a fact.
Why should I listen to a literal faggot?
>>54135515
It's a good message, but the messenger's fucking repulsive and nobody will listen to him.
Not even tinfoil, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone with stakes in social media put him up to this.
At least three newbz ITT already
>/.
too little too late you twat
>>54135540
If a guy is smart enough to stay away from women, he can't be all stupid.
>>54135515
He's a social media addict himself.
It's probably just his depression talking.
>>54135573
There are no good tech news websites.
CREEPER ALERT
I live fine without any social media, but tracking is everywhere now on the net. The golden days of 90s net without sold data is ded
>>54135675
>this
>>54135515
>Listening to faggots
>ever
>>54135515
This guy is such a fucking idiot but because he's good with words people don't realise it
>>54135515
>has urged his fans to abandon social networks
Did he do it on Twitter, which he has been an avid user of?
>>54135515
anyone who wasn't retarded never had a social media account to begin with, much less waiting for some comedian retard to tell you to delete them.
>>54135711
>>54135540
>>54135792
You know only latent homosexuals care about that, right?
>>54135840
>had over four million Twitter followers prior to deleting his account in February
HE'S RIGHT
4CHAN IS THE WORST SOCIAL NETWORK
USERS GET TRACKED BY GOOGLE CAPTCHA
EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IS SENT TO GOOGLE AND IS ADDED TO YOUR PROFILE SENT TO THE NSA
Was his nose always like that or did the cocaine cave it in on one side?
>>54136040
Is it? Even eith a pass? Everything srnt through America is tracked anyway, speaking of which why did people stop caring about prism
>>54136047
Don't be silly, that's what Brits look like.
>i_dont_like_thing_angel_ok.png
>>54135540
Because this faggot just told other faggots to stop being faggots.
And he shat on feminists and the PC crowd.
He also managed to shit all over capeshit movies at the same time.
https://youtu.be/eJQHakkViPo?t=7m40s
>7m40s
>>54135975
What, I'm supposed to read the whole OP now?
>>54135945
epik meme
>if you hate cum guzzlers, you are a latent cum guzzler
>if you hate heroin junkies, you are a latent heroin junkie
this is how retarded you are
>>54135515
He may be a faggot slamming boi pussy 24/7 but he is right.
I stay incontact with my real friends with my phone. Only vapid whores and poor people use social media.
>>54136040
Why should i care about the NSA or google profile?
I don't live in the west and probably never will, besides who gives a fuck about shitposting on an anonymous website populated almost entirely by kids?
Your type are all paranoid schizos with fucking tinfoils up the ass.
>>54135536
I've never signed up on any social media site and people are still constantly bugging me for time I don't have to spend on them.
Get better friends.
>>54136249
>i don't live in the west
Are you really so gullible as to believe that the NSA/Google/etc only cares about Americans and other western cultures?
They're building a profile on you too, Hajib.
>>54136232
Well, I'm not gay and I don't hate them, so based on this you are a faggot.
Based. We need more normies alerting of the dangers of shit like Facebook and Twitter, as nobody takes seriously asocial nerds on these matters.
>>54135536
those people you call your friends on social media are not really your friends. This is a fact.
>>54135536
I don't use social media unless you count teamspeak and steam
>>54135536
>post-millennials really believe this
I do. I even go out with them. I know, shocking!
>>54136279
Are you seriously under the impression that Stephen Fry is a normie and not an asocial nerd?
>>54135515
i havent had a social network acct in years. only thing i have now in an anonymous twitter to socialize with other trumplads
>>54136221
/tv/ BTFO
>>54136390
/tv/ btfoed by a fag, how ironic
Is this the local fun thread?
I have something fun here.
>>54135536
Not true. I have plenty fo them
>>54135536
That's completely wrong dummy. Can't even go outside without a fedora. This is a fact.
What is it like to be a social cripple?
>it's fine all my friends are crippled too
>>54136465
Yeah just saw it, norway is a joke, can't declare him a psychopath to have him discredited and have to give him a ps2 and a pc.
/pol/ must be having a party.
>>54135515
>2,600-word essay,
>2600
Heh.
>>54135515
You could always maintain 'fake' social media profile to throw off the machine, m8.
Just post kittens, memes, and all other narciscist $#!i+ to share with your 'friends'.
Or better yet create some bot to aggregate current events+memes and have it maintain your social media profile for you.
>>54135540
He certainly works in literature, and has made no secret of him being a faggot...
>>54135536
>>54136571
No you can't, google needs phone number. Fuckbook needs an id
>>54136674
Burner phones are not a thing?
>>54136691
Might as well just pay a guy then.
Also googles not really social and you still need id for facebook. Which annoys me when a site says "sign in with facebook" instant drop
i signed up to youtube back in 2006, before google bought it
since then, they have pestered me for my real name and phone number on numerous occasions, forced me to create a google account to keep using youtube (which i used fake info for, naturally), then they disabled my ability to make comments on videos unless i signed up to their shitty social network, so i just stopped commenting
the lengths they have gone to, to find out my info, is quite disturbing
i fucking hate google
Who's ready for the post-internet age, when all the gnomies get the fuck off internet?
>>54136856
So never?
>>54136796
>signed up for youtube
For the love of fuck, why?
>>54135536
But I'm autistic and have no friends. Why else would I be here?
>>54136885
They'll come back with the neo-internet movement.
>>54135515
Does no one else notice the irony of him choosing to live in the UK, the biggest most thorough surveillance state in existence?
>>54135536
I have friends that I go out with and talk with daily, and I don't use any social media to contact them; not even apps.
I call them with my phone, and vice versa.
>>54136958
because before youtube, if you wanted to find videos you liked, you had to browse message boards and shitty filehost-using websites to watch videos, almost none of them played in your browser, so you had to download that shit first and play it on your video player
and this was back when internet was a lot slower, more expensive, and most had very tight bandwidth caps
>>54135536
This is what millennials actually believe.
>>54135515
urging young people not to have phones
good luck with that fry
>>54137044
By friends usually plan meetups on WhatsApp.
But since I refuse to use WhatsApp (or any other social media) they then have to then call/text me separately.
Luckily they like me enough to do that, otherwise I would probably have caved in.
>literally jewish AND gay
Top lell
This faggot Jew is a cunt but I actually agree with him for once
Took the cunt long enough to finally stop sucking the twitter cock though
>>54135536
>being this needy
kys dip
https://gnu.org/fry/
the hero we deserve
>b-b-b-but i can't speak with muh family without da facebooks
normies
>>54137062
I remember all that, which is why I can't fathom signing up for youtube. Just watch the video without a stupid account and go on with your day.
>>54135536
this is a retarded statement
>say "grow up"
>the media outlets shit and urinate themselves
this man is pretty ok with me
>>54136674
>google needs phone number. Fuckbook needs an id
haha wut
>>54137469
You can't watch certain flagged videos without an account and also it's nice to be able to subscribe to channels.
>>54135859
>>54137732
>>54137805
No I mean I didn't know they ask for ID now, is this actually true?
>>54137830
Yes
>>54135859
Shit, is he only 57? He looks older.
>>54136249
when telstra and their pals are building out networks in south-east asian countries with a sizeable australian, british and american ex-pat population you just know something fishy is up.
>>54137922
glad I already got my fake accounts then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_mS4CIXcLY
>>54137954
AIDS will do that sometimes.
>>54137784
it would be extremely painful
>>54137954
>He looks older.
He's fat and alcoholic
>>54135536
No it's not you fucking rump ranger.
>>54139804
you're a big guy...
>So. What might be the proudest boast of these young?
>I’ve got this app.
>I’ve written this app.
>My YouTube Channel won an award.
>I’ve got xyfollowers on thisdotcom?
>Well maybe. But I’m going to suggest that if I was young now, my proudest boast would be: ‘My friends and I, we disappeared ourselves. No social media, no email, no chat, no wifi, no selfies, no SMS, no smartphones. We did it. We did this thing. We Got Off The Grid.’
The next frontier. 4chan IRL edition.
>>54135536
>You can't have friends in 2016 without social media. This is a fact.
what a sad pathetic fucking wanker you are
>>54135536
>no friends
we're all friends on /g/
and where is muh archive.is link of the text? i'm scared to click.
>>54141290
>we're all friends on /g/
If that doesn't make you shudder, you're a sociopath.
Oh, wait...
>>54135515
Typical Macfag.
>>54140863
>no email
literally why
You can encrypt that shit easily
Gnu.org/fry
Ironic from someone who uses grindr
>>54136249
>your shitty government is overthrown by communists or islamists
>they find out you used 4chan
You don't survive.
>>54135859
Why does this look strange to people? It's not unusual for a straight male celebrity to have a wife/girlfriend much younger than them.
>>54137225
Whatsapp isn't really social media. Its just skype/msn messenger but it identifies you with your phone number
>>54135536
Honestly I use what's app and Steam for anything friend related. My last Facebook post was in 2012.
>>54145073
This.
And What'sShit I barely use as well. It's like a needy cat, demanding your utmost attention all the time.
>>54135807
So what we are all bad at something
>>54135536
Lol you Facebook addicted imbecile. Look at what you are speaking. You can have friends out of social network. Just because you have 600+ friends in Facebook doesn't mean you can discredit the true fact that you can't connect with someone in real life rather than virtual world.
What you are saying is that you can only say Hi, hello my friend on internet.
>>54136249
>not the west
>get tracked by the NSA for posting "I will break the whit haus"
>git gud fag
>>54135515
>comparing such platforms to 'dystopian' forms of government seen in 1970s sci-fi films such as Logan's Run and Soylent Green
Yeah, he is completely right. Five to ten years ago I had this weird idea that the internet would free people from the control of the mass media. Ads would die, less waste would be produced and things would be better. I'm a retard of course because what happened is that people now just let themselves be controlled by Facebtube.
