[spookierookie]

>> Perhaps Thiel sees Facebook as a place to contain unbounded Mimetic violence. It simultaneously perpetuates violence and prevents it from happening. After all, if people fight on social media, they won’t fight on the streets. Like a boiling kettle, we have to let out steam somewhere. Better to cool the pot on social media than in the streets. In the words of Thiel, “social media proved to be more important than it looked.”

This just sounds wrong. If anything social media have poisoned or killed almost all human relationships that I know of. It is now almost impossible for any group of people to even grasp the idea of consensus or meeting half way. In other words FB and the likes have created a huge number of cold-conflicts waiting the smallest chance to get real...but the writer (and Thiel?) thinks it's just the opposite.

Yet I think the observations in "Millennials: Young and Yearning" are really spot-on.