> - Girls obsessed over their physiques. Going skinny to the point it wrecked their hormones. This is a tale much older than social media or the internet. At t

> - Girls obsessed over their physiques. Going skinny to the point it wrecked their hormones. This is a tale much older than social media or the internet. At this point we have bred for this predisposition. We’ll probably be better of acknowledging that. Everything else you wrote is not new either. US divorce rates hit an all time high in 1981 and has basically plateau’d. The divorce rate is skewed higher because of people in their teens and twenties (but still a bad, uninsurable, bet even if it was down to 10% or 5% for some populations). What can you possibly ascribe to social media? Making out with random people for fun and/or attention is not new. This is the most peculiar post. Social media is reflecting and perpetuating existing culture at best, if thats what you can come up with. We have enough other reasons to vilify social media than ascribing ongoing and preexisting realities (that even happened actually more frequently beforehand!) to it