> Facebook has become a platform for discovering uncomfortable opinions of acquaintances and realizing the irrelevance of past social connections. At some poin

> Facebook has become a platform for discovering uncomfortable opinions of acquaintances and realizing the irrelevance of past social connections. At some point, the social internet started existing primarily to make people feel good about their own strongly held controversial opinions. Why would I go on Facebook, where the experience is seeing an old friend hold some dumb half baked opinion they picked up from Fox/CNN then bicker with them, when I could go to twitter and watch the top influencer in my ring dunk on the top influencer in the competitions ring, making myself instantly feel more right?