Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt...
by oblio on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:00PM
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There is a difference.
Planes and schools are by design positive things.
Social media by design is at best neutral.
Social media is designed to benefit its owners and its customers (ad sellers). At best social media is designed to entertain its users, but the big caveat is that it does it through whatever means necessary. And that's a big caveat. Because at the end of the day, it's an online casino. And we regulate casinos to hell and back.
Planes and schools are by design positive things.
Social media by design is at best neutral.
Social media is designed to benefit its owners and its customers (ad sellers). At best social media is designed to entertain its users, but the big caveat is that it does it through whatever means necessary. And that's a big caveat. Because at the end of the day, it's an online casino. And we regulate casinos to hell and back.