Social media debate

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Moot: Social media is bad for us. Affirmative team captain’s presentation. Social Media Debate, 2010

Transcript of Social media debate

Moot: Social media is bad for us.

Affirmative team captain’s presentation.

Social Media Debate, 2010

Which would you prefer?

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Which would you prefer?

2

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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.