Mental illness is a tragic thing, but taking away Facebook won't solve it. Mentally ill people are distressed by many kinds of social interaction; would you sug

Mental illness is a tragic thing, but taking away Facebook won't solve it. Mentally ill people are distressed by many kinds of social interaction; would you suggest banning them all? The person in question doesn't have many friends, and spends hours going down rabbit holes on FB and YouTube. He expresses some extreme views for someone at the stage of life he's in, that mirror the opinions he sees on Facebook, and he repeatedly makes borderline violent threats. He lacks the nous to understand the difference between trolling and genuine comment. He isn't distressed by Facebook as much as he is emboldened by what he sees as a like-minded community. If Facebook didn't exist, he wouldn't seek such information out, since he isn't a particularly active consumer of information. It seems to encourage craziness, as someone else here pointed out, by allowing people who would otherwise be isolated from each other to congregate and reinforce extreme views. What other issues exactly? Trump being elected? Not everybody considers than an issue, e.g. the people who voted for him, and it's certainly not settled science that he wouldn't have been elected without it. Obama also made heavy use of social media in his election campaign; maybe he wouldn't have been elected without it. No, I was referring to the links between social media and depression. But you can add to the list FB leaking personal information to political campaigns.