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Read the original post. I pretty clearly articulated what I was asking. You're being disingenuous, now.

• lovich 8y ago
  You asked how it was destroying the world, and then said you didn't ask that. I am actually trying to understand you, but cannot see what you mean when these statements can't both be true
  • darawk 8y ago
    I asked if all it was doing was destroying the world. Then, in a follow-up, I asked you to explain the physics of how it was destroying the world. The emphasis being on the word 'how' in that question. I didn't mean the literal physics in the sense of tearing the earth apart - I meant the process by which it was eroding culture, community, values, etc. I think that there is a decently strong case to be made that social media, especially certain forms of social media, are in fact doing those things. I think there is a case to be made that advertising generally has helped that along, by allowing social media services to be free for users. I don't really see the case that 'ad tech' has had much to do with that, other than by optimizing the ads seen to make the companies marginally more profitable.