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by DisjointedHunt 1722 days ago
The argument is social media is not a neutral platform but __amplifies__ the extremes, thus reducing the "Visibility" to a rat race of envy, by design.

If it were as simple as you suggest, the studies would not be pointing out the biased slant of these platforms being harmful as much as they have been.

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Also add in a 'revenge' and 'pettiness', for lack of a better term, style posting. I just shudder at thinking what some of my peers would have posted about me and others when I was younger. They barely kept it together normally. But sitting behind the 'safety' of a screen... It would have been awful.