> It's the perfect combination of justifying vicious behavior while also absolving themselves of responsibility.
And Twitter/Facebook/YouTube just grin, raking in the advertising dollars from "engagement." The more people "engaged" in the activity, the better!
I don't think the concept of social media is fundamentally evil. It's dangerous, certainly, but I don't think the core concept must be evil.
Public "social media companies," driven to improve revenue from injecting advertising into streams consisting of repackaging other people's content? Those seem to reliably turn evil.
And Twitter/Facebook/YouTube just grin, raking in the advertising dollars from "engagement." The more people "engaged" in the activity, the better!
I don't think the concept of social media is fundamentally evil. It's dangerous, certainly, but I don't think the core concept must be evil.
Public "social media companies," driven to improve revenue from injecting advertising into streams consisting of repackaging other people's content? Those seem to reliably turn evil.