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Adtech and social media are like secondhand smoking, something we've accepted as annoying but harmless, but actually extremely deleterious to our mental health.
by carabiner 4y ago
Adtech and social media are like secondhand smoking, something we've accepted as annoying but harmless, but actually extremely deleterious to our mental health. In 50 years, we'll look back at our current social media addictions in the same way people today look at Mad Men characters smoking everywhere 24/7.
- dylan604 4y agoSecond hand exposure to smoking is pretty well understood by cigarette consumers, yet the second hand exposure of social media consumption is very much not understood. All of the shadow profiles, tracking, fingerprinting etc so that people that are not consuming social media still have profiles about them being created without their knowledge or permission.