The issue isn't social media in itself, it's how social media has become this absurd commercialized parody of what social media should be about.
Back in the day Facebook was actually decently good social life because it augmented it with helping you easily connect with others and get to know events happening (and other stuff too).
Instead everything has turned into some bizarre race to the bottom where communities are slowly becoming glorified cult of personalities, social engagement doesn't mean people socially interacting but instead it's a statistical term now, etc.
Instead of connecting us it's gamed to exploit us and there's plenty of people willing to be 1 step above the exploitation (influencers).
Just looking at how different twitch. tv is now compared to how it used to be, it used to be that pretty much everyone watched streamers just to see someone play something or do something extraordinary, now while it still is a bit true, there's a growing shift that people don't watch for any other reason than the influencer the self.
Social media becoming an absurd commercialised parody of itself was inevitable. They're for-profit companies and that's where the financial incentives are. If there was a period when you thought social media was 'good', it's because the operators hadn't yet optimised their corporate mind-control machine.
Back in the day Facebook was actually decently good social life because it augmented it with helping you easily connect with others and get to know events happening (and other stuff too).
Instead everything has turned into some bizarre race to the bottom where communities are slowly becoming glorified cult of personalities, social engagement doesn't mean people socially interacting but instead it's a statistical term now, etc.
Instead of connecting us it's gamed to exploit us and there's plenty of people willing to be 1 step above the exploitation (influencers).
Just looking at how different twitch. tv is now compared to how it used to be, it used to be that pretty much everyone watched streamers just to see someone play something or do something extraordinary, now while it still is a bit true, there's a growing shift that people don't watch for any other reason than the influencer the self.