We under-estimate how much of an impact our social media posts have on the world (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by CoupleOfConcerns@lemmy.nz to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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It's routine for even relatively unsuccessful posts and comments to get 1000+ views. Imagine that many people huddled around you in the real world hearing your take on the Reddit API changes or looking at the dumb meme you made in 5 minutes. That would be something, wouldn't it? For some reason we don't think it is just because it's happening on the internet.

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[-] rockerface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Human brains are really, really bad at multiplying. This means we can't really imagine a 1000 of something, so the sheer scale is difficult to perceive intuitively. That might be part of the reason, I think.

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