[elvis10ten]

I think social media is just serving people what they want. We can argue if this is a good thing or not.

> Addiction is not healthy, and neither is social media.

Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world? I know this is not pragmatic but I feel there are lots of things that are addictive (even things that were not designed to be).

> We don't need social media, what we need is real social connections Maybe I’m using social media differently, but what is in today's social media that makes it mutually exclusive to real social connections?

[ellopoppit]

>Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world?

Quitting and staying off of toxic social media is a great exercise in self discipline.

>>We don't need social media, what we need is real social connections

>Maybe I’m using social media differently, but what is in today's social media that makes it mutually exclusive to real social connections?

That doesn't mean they're mutually exclusive, it means one is overwhelmingly superior to the other, and that the major shift over the past decade has been in the wrong direction.

[patrick451]

Meth labs are also giving people what they.

Even if your take the full libertarian stance that all drugs should be legal, the parent comment did not seem to be advocating for outlawing social media. It was positing that people have realized that social media is an addictive toxin and are deciding, on their own, to bail out. If something is truly addictive, suggesting people develop some self discipline and partake just little seems misguided at best. It's way easier to just abstain completely. Nobody wants to end up like Doug Stamper dispensing three drops of whiskey from syringe onto their tongue.