>With all the hate social media gets for example, imagine a life without them again. Easy, that's my life right now >I say this as someone who hardly uses it

>With all the hate social media gets for example, imagine a life without them again. Easy, that's my life right now >I say this as someone who hardly uses it but knows that it is there if I want to communicate with someone I care about. Do you really want to send physical letters again ? Yes they have their charm and nostalgia but I am not willing to trade the convenience of internet for something worse or outdated. That all fits in the original, "utopian" if you want, view of the internet espoused in the article. You can do that with email, IMs like IRC, personal webpages. Facebook-style social media, with its surveillance, addictiveness, toxic feedback loops, is irrelevant to this task.