Social media networks

Author's name: Robert Riediker Publisher: Cultural Center for the Book Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Technology and Information Systems About the book: People, all people, intellectuals, educated, and the general public, even marginalized and the lowest of society, their fools, express freely in the virtual space their opinions, on politics, death, life, and scandals. They are mostly the ones who set the standards of good and evil, truth, honesty, permissible, and forbidden. Based on these standards, they judge those residing on Facebook or outside it, while what is called democracy is nothing but an explosion of narcissism that has denied all objective dimensions in it and in existence, to turn into a source for venting much of hatred, grudges, and all forms of individual and collective hatred, and much of the hatred of politics, ideology, race, and sect. And little of knowledge, love, and brotherhood. Because criticism originating from hatred is characterized by not aiming seriously at what it claims, as hatred does not criticize to destroy evil; it uses it as a pretext to harm people's reputation (Max Scheler). This makes these networks mostly a deceptive game based on a double confusion—confusing chatter with speech, and confusing opinion with thought... Chatter spreads opinion, while opinion does not think, or thinks badly, as Gaston Bachelard expressed.