I think there's a common missing perspective in this whole debate of social media. Sure, social media is addictive and is not easy to live in the modern world w

I think there's a common missing perspective in this whole debate of social media. Sure, social media is addictive and is not easy to live in the modern world without it, but what if social media is not the only culprit today, and the decadence of real life shared spaces is also part of the problem? Everything is a product nowadays, and public spaces are treated like private spaces by local governments: "we don't want problems in our land" is the default attitude, even if unconsciously. They keep spending money on absurd events, but they never realize the social potential they have around. If streets are not actively promoted as the places where society should live, and we have social media pulling from the other side, what do we expect to happen? As we have been living with it for a while, the poisoning effects of social media have become more obvious to more people, but if so many are already in social media and public spaces are half dead, it's not easy to escape. Though I actually believe we can use technology to revert this back. We can use technology to get people who is geographically close to interact with other people, in more local networks. It's not about driving people out from X, it's about giving them better spaces. We are not completely unaware of the poisoning, so we just need to offer people better alternatives. And even if local governments have no vision, we can educate them and build spaces on our own, even if the first ones need to be half-digital for the bootstrapping. I was working on something like this, and while I've had to stop for a while both for personal and global pandemic reasons (and the best ideas are still not clear to me and I'm still improving my skills on web development and other areas), I'll keep working on this kind of projects. People likes to be with people if they have a decent place to stay and something to interact around. And everyone has very different preferences, but it's just a matter of working on it.