Whenever I read anything like this I think people have a weirdly rosy view of the past. 30 years ago people have libraries and encyclopedias. Now billions of p

Whenever I read anything like this I think people have a weirdly rosy view of the past. 30 years ago people have libraries and encyclopedias. Now billions of people take it for granted that you can have a handhold device in your pocket that has access to virtually the entire body of human knowledge. Sure people use that device for all sorts of crap that ranges from the inane (eg "look at how amazing I am or my life is" IG posts) to the dangerous and outright harmful (eg cyberbullying, QAnon BS) but let me clue you in: I challenge you to find a point in history where this wasn't the case. I mean a few centuries ago we were burning witches in the US. Only decades ago we had racial segregation. We had lynchings. The 20th century saw people killing millions of other people. We dropped nuclear bombs on cities. In the 19th century (and earlier) we literally bought and sold people and ripped them from their homeland to drag them against their will to a new continent. The fact is when it comes to social media you can completely ignore it and it won't have a negative impact on your life. In fact it's probably the opposite. I'm genuinely curious: when were things better? And why?