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> Social media is terrible, why can't we quit it? Is it though? Don't you think maybe the billion of social media users around the world are getting some value
by vlunkr 3y ago
> Social media is terrible, why can't we quit it?
Is it though? Don't you think maybe the billion of social media users around the world are getting some value out of it? It's a pretty shallow take.
- alwaysbeconsing 3y agoI do agree that "social media is uniformly bad" is too broad a stroke. That said, humans aren't exactly the best at discriminating something that feels good from being unhealthy or at least unproductive.
- vlunkr 3y agoYeah I agree. It's easy to list some negatives of social media (doomscrolling, bullying, building unrealistic expectations for your life), but the simple ability to connect many people all over the world is pretty hard to argue against. Social media companies push shallow, easy to digest content, but that doesn't mean that there aren't thousands of meaningful interactions happening every day.
- ChrisRR 3y ago"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that"
- brigadier132 3y agoYeah, the same way people get value out of gambling.