[karaterobot]

I agree with the broad message that social media has had a net negative effect on the world. I think the Doomsday Machine metaphor doesn't work, and even though I'm open to the argument the article was making, I don't think it did a good job making it.

I wonder whether the media climate created by social media has made it harder to write persuasively against it. In order to be part of a successful business model centered around social media, these articles tend to embody the qualities (inflammatory, reactionary, narrow-minded, unfocused) of the thing they're railing against.