> That's what social media allows random people to do much more easily: speak publicly about stuff. GeoCities let you speak publicly about stuff, so that alone

> That's what social media allows random people to do much more easily: speak publicly about stuff. GeoCities let you speak publicly about stuff, so that alone is an incomplete characterization. What nearly all social media does is preferentially bias message propagation to boost engagement in order to enhance advertising sales and biases of its owner(s). This tends to amplify drama and stoke rivalry.