Comment by spaceisballer

I have no doubt there are similar stories to yours or to a lesser extent. And while I’m glad you have gotten some relief, what price are we paying as a society? I’m not just talking about the environmental impact alone, what about the societal impact? Social media has not been around too long but it seems to be a net negative for society. I’m sure there are plenty of anecdotes to the contrary, but the studies are showing more and more of the detrimental impact to kids/teens. The stories and testimonies of how it was engineered to be addictive. Yet we’ve mostly moved on and allowed money more social media to get owned (and now traditional media) and controlled by the rich. But your statement is right, I doubt I’ll get swayed easily. Anecdotes and proclamations work when thinking short term. But taking the long view or looking at recent history I don’t see a positive. We have the hype being brought to us by the people that gave us the dot com bubble, crypto and NFTs. But hey, go fast, break things and never ever think about if what you are doing is really beneficial to society (after us, they are not us.)