[veec_cas_tant]

Maybe I'm way off, but in my mind social media is more like ice cream or fast food companies knowing their product is unhealthy.

[version_five]

I think social media is worse for society than tobacco. Tobacco shortens peoples lives, social media is destroying society. We'd ultimately be better living harmoniously but only until seventy than in civil war and mass upheaval.

[casey2]

Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US post social media: 0

Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US pre- social media: 1

I'll take social media and quit cigarettes.

[gtvwill]

Lol if you take the number of annual gun deaths in the US each year, you arguably are still in a civil war. 40000+ of your own killed each year just from guns alone. You kill more of yourselves each year than was lost in the entire gulf War of 1990 to 91.

[lotsoweiners]

But a majority of those gun deaths are suicides not murders: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-....

[MrYellowP]

You make no sense. You know that.

How many years are covered by "pre social media" and how many by "post social media" ? The difference is significant.

[gtvwill]

Your way off. Haven't seen ice cream and fast food be responsible for anywhere near as much suicide and detrimental mental health as social media. Folks generally use ice cream to bring you out of that mood not drive it home.