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I mean, do you remember high school? It's been a popularity contest ever since high schools have existed. This is just a different form.

• toomuchtodo 9y ago
  > This is just a different form. At scale. Significantly different. Societal fabric has enough problems without adding to it.
  • addicted 9y ago
    Also with the brightest brains in the world devoting their phds to make sure you engage. What social media is today is IMO a significantly different from anything humans have experienced before. That’s not to say it’s necessarily bad, but for the last 5 years or so the evidence seems to be pointing in that direction.
    • y_u_no_rust 9y ago
      you're really overstating the intelligence of those folks