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I don't think social media is a mirror of society. Social media's focused on attention and addiction, and is not designed or measured on presenting an accurate

I don't think social media is a mirror of society. Social media's focused on attention and addiction, and is not designed or measured on presenting an accurate picture of what's normal. Not only the population on Twitter is not a normal distribution, the interactions and interaction style are not normal. Social media has been around long enough that it's possible the crazy tech bosses you have seen may be an effect of the craziness of social media. But, then again it could just be crazy bosses. I still agree with your first sentence. Plenty of room to improve. But I think the online world is the #1 component to focus on to make that happen.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
That was true of newspapers too, since their very beginning. We've strayed very far from "normal" over the past couple thousand years. Writing is not normal, if by "normal" you mean what human mind is adapted to. I say that as a reminder, because it's too easy to reattribute to social media what's really a set of more general problems that have been with us for some time now. Loss of fidelity in communication is not caused by social media, it's caused by writing. Distorted view of the world is not caused by social media, it's caused by mass media, and has been a problem since the first newspaper.