the very worst thing about social media is the inability to recognise anything between two extremes
either "change through poasting" or "everything is pointless why bother" and nothing in between
I’ve always felt the worst thing is the way it has enabled zillions of people who used to be de facto isolated and contained because of their abhorrent views/bonkers conspiracy theories to find & connect with one another and do start doing real damage.
I personally think the root cause for this is that people take themselves (or themself?) much too serious.
They think posting is a declaration or a postulation of will. Neither is true. Posting is most of the time just:
a) shitposting
b) their own echo chamber amplification
c) venting
d) shitposting
no, we did not bring down the government by poasting "tories out" fifteen trillion times in a row
but also, i made friends here. people i hang out with from time to time.
social media is the thing we've been doing for tens of thousands of years: human communication