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Comment by skwee357

The next step is to outlaw social media in general, and maybe the world will become a bit better.

Edit: in case someone decides to disagree with me, here is a non-exhaustive list of issues that social media has created: isolation from the real world, unrealistic expectations in terms of looks/status/success, dehumanization by turning people into likes-dislikes, dehumanizations by creating influencers whose sole purpose it to pump cheap crap to their "followers", a vessel for state actors to spread the current flavor of propaganda/racism supported by "the algorithm" that creates echo chambers rather than promoting diversity of opinions, dopamine producing machines that glue us to the screens.

There is nothing social in social media, in-fact, it should be called the "anti-social media".

parent skwee357 11 months ago

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