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Social media's not making us better. It's fckng us up...immensely, politically, psychologically, societally...
This right here is cool. none of us would even know of one another without these forums. But the net net is negative. The rage baiting, the hate networking, the misinformation, the political/religious/racial hate. If you want to be biblical...it's the Tree of Knowledge. It's corrupting and sinful. Our children, worse yet our politicians, have their behavior shaped by 'likes', 'upvotes', 'clicks', 'followers'.... it's not even real anymore. It's mixed reality. I'm thinking of a specific relative of mine that actually lives her life as more or less a performance for whomever she percieves as her audience. It's that whole instagram kind of thing. Or those idiots that film themselves harassing people to generate attention. None of that isn't crazy.