• yeahiknow3@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The irony of this comment is just incredible.

    For anyone not brain-dead: the scientific evidence that excessive exposure to social media garbage and “doom scrolling” is bad for you and especially bad for children is completely overwhelming. It’s something we’ve known for years. Jonathan Haidt is a douchebag who picks low hanging fruit.

    Damn, I wonder how that happened in these intervening years to radicalize young men.

    Facebook gets politically involved, and in just 8 short years:

    Does this mean we can’t have social media? No, it just means the way we are living, the hellscape of online abuse and concrete jungle we’ve created for the next generation is making us vulnerable to manipulation and misery. This isn’t about social media. It’s about the fact that most of you fuckers haven’t touched grass in years. That’s why our democracy is dying.

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      7 months ago

      My comment was just meant as a joke on the other comment, but I appreciate your contribution. Of course social media is part of a larger problem. That’s obvious to anyone with eyes.