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ImperatorScientia t1_ir55n80 wrote

Reply to comment by Amisarth in Are the youtube platform AI and many others social media AI are corrupting the young generation? by NTR_Slayer

Ah, yes. The ol’ “people have been complaining for a while so a problem must not really exist” approach. Perhaps I should employ the same strategy to climate change, for example? Fact of the matter is social media poses a demonstrable harm to people in ways than have actually never existed before the 21st century. Even the OG developers, who claim to prevent their own children from using the platforms, say so.

Refusing to see the problems doesn’t make you wiser than the rest, I’m afraid.

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Amisarth t1_ir6h371 wrote

I don’t think that social media isn’t problematic. I think it’s been used as a tool to distract people from bigger issues by inflating it’s importance.

I also think social media is used as a coping mechanism when better coping mechanisms haven’t been learned. Social media is a tool and it can be used in a healthy and an unhealthy way. Granted, developers create these platforms to take advantage of our vulnerabilities, we should learn how to responsibly use these tools. And simple education is likely enough to mitigate the vast majority of issues relating to it.

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