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In reply to the discussion: Thank God Facebook is down [View all]AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)And I wish people and organizations would stop assuming that Im on it. Information should be available outside of FB, so that Im not made to feel excluded, or like a Luddite. (This actually happened to me with a club I had just joined.) I have almost next to no social media footprint, which is exactly how I want it. I have no choice but to use the Internet; I do what I can to limit its impact on my life.
And you are right social media, from making kids feel shitty about their appearances to posting extremist and violent political tropes, is a huge reason why things are so fucked up, and I wish its defenders would stop using their innocent and worthy experiences of it as a way to deny that simple truth. Almost any innovation with obvious exceptions, of course is inherently good. Its what its possibly used for that is the problem.