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Maybe I'm way off, but in my mind social media is more like ice cream or fast food companies knowing their product is unhealthy.
by veec_cas_tant 3y ago
Maybe I'm way off, but in my mind social media is more like ice cream or fast food companies knowing their product is unhealthy.
- gtvwill 3y agoYour way off. Haven't seen ice cream and fast food be responsible for anywhere near as much suicide and detrimental mental health as social media. Folks generally use ice cream to bring you out of that mood not drive it home.
- version_five 3y agoI think social media is worse for society than tobacco. Tobacco shortens peoples lives, social media is destroying society. We'd ultimately be better living harmoniously but only until seventy than in civil war and mass upheaval.
- casey2 3y agoNumber of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US post social media: 0 Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US pre- social media: 1 I'll take social media and quit cigarettes.
- gtvwill 3y agoLol if you take the number of annual gun deaths in the US each year, you arguably are still in a civil war. 40000+ of your own killed each year just from guns alone. You kill more of yourselves each year than was lost in the entire gulf War of 1990 to 91.
- lotsoweiners 3y agoBut a majority of those gun deaths are suicides not murders: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/#:~:text=Though%20they%20tend%20to%20get,)%2C%20according%20to%20the%20CDC https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-....
- MrYellowP 3y agoYou make no sense. You know that. How many years are covered by "pre social media" and how many by "post social media" ? The difference is significant.