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The only thing social media has done is allow people to do what they do at scale. Your issues with social media are simply complaints about people.
by jmyeet 5y ago
The only thing social media has done is allow people to do what they do at scale. Your issues with social media are simply complaints about people.
- 4dregress 5y agoNah, are you forgetting about all the examples of user manipulation? Cambridge Analytics, the Rohingya Genocide, the impact on young people / peoples mental health, body dysmorphia. There is a very long list! The worst thing about it is the people behind these platforms know exactly what their products are doing and they profit from it. The problem is it allows people/organizations "to do what people do at scale" with light or no consequences. And they make it very easy for people to do it and to get hooked on it.
- brodouevencode 5y agoI'm not so sure that's 100% true in the absence of social media. If it were there would be millions/billions of actual physical confrontations per day.
- hollerith 5y ago>Your issues with social media are simply complaints about people. That argument has the same flaw as the National Rifle Association's "Guns don't kill people, people kill people".
- q-big 5y ago> That argument has the same flaw as the National Rifle Association's "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Guns don't kill people. I kill people. With guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk