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There is no “better” or “worse” social media. It’s like calling it a less harmful cancer. Can we stop pretending this is innovation and move on. https://www.pe

There is no “better” or “worse” social media. It’s like calling it a less harmful cancer. Can we stop pretending this is innovation and move on. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/15/64-of-americans-say-social-media-have-a-mostly-negative-effect-on-the-way-things-are-going-in-the-u-s-today/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/15/64-of-ame... https://socialmediavictims.org/mental-health/self-esteem/ https://socialmediavictims.org/mental-health/self-esteem/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7905185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7905185/ https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/social-media-profound-risk-kids-teens-us-surgeon/story?id=99537853 https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/social-media-profound-risk... https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/teachers-union-issues-report-calling-out-extremely-negative-impact-of-social-media-on-education-students-mental-health-self-esteem-harm-addiction-developmental-issues-safety-counselors-principle-clout-trends-tiktok-challenge-instagram-medicine-wellness https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/teachers-union-issue... https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-social-media-use-linked-to-decline-mental-health https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-social-m... Sure let’s debate what version we have to live with, but not whether we should continue the experiment in the first place. Social media isn’t inevitable. We could just say no thanks and move on. It’s not too late (yet) imo for society to choose to say no thank you. There will come a day when it becomes completely inconceivable to have a society without it, but even the fact that you could consider it not being there proves we aren’t at that point yet. (Posted on social media).

LoveMortuus 3y ago
>There is no “better” or “worse” social media. It’s like calling it a less harmful cancer. The difference between less harmful and more harmful cancer could be the difference between life and death. I think any steps towards a more human friendly platforms are welcome. Kind of like the "boil a frog" thing, but in the opposite direction.
- lapcat 3y ago
  > The difference between less harmful and more harmful cancer could be the difference between life and death. This is a strange analogy. Of course some forms of cancer are more treatable than others, especially when detected early, but the best "treatment" for cancer is to avoid it in the first place. There's no realistic, sensical way to move people from getting getting more harmful forms of cancer to to less harmful forms of cancer. In fact, it would be absolutely absurd to try somehow to encourage people to get less harmful forms of cancer. All of the encouragement should be directed at avoiding behaviors that lead to cancer.
  - happytiger 3y ago
    Exactly. There’s no cancer for life! Only degrees of suffering. And the metaphor is apt to my original point.

LoveMortuus 3y ago

>There is no “better” or “worse” social media. It’s like calling it a less harmful cancer. The difference between less harmful and more harmful cancer could be the difference between life and death. I think any steps towards a more human friendly platforms are welcome. Kind of like the "boil a frog" thing, but in the opposite direction.

lapcat 3y ago
> The difference between less harmful and more harmful cancer could be the difference between life and death. This is a strange analogy. Of course some forms of cancer are more treatable than others, especially when detected early, but the best "treatment" for cancer is to avoid it in the first place. There's no realistic, sensical way to move people from getting getting more harmful forms of cancer to to less harmful forms of cancer. In fact, it would be absolutely absurd to try somehow to encourage people to get less harmful forms of cancer. All of the encouragement should be directed at avoiding behaviors that lead to cancer.
- happytiger 3y ago
  Exactly. There’s no cancer for life! Only degrees of suffering. And the metaphor is apt to my original point.