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user-inactivated · 4372 days ago · link · · parent · post: Agree or Disagree: Social media do more harm than good
Agree, but not because of social media "dissolving the social fabric of society by limiting personal interaction", but because it's forcibly integrating the web with the rest of society. I'm more worried about the harm the social does to the web than the harm the web does to the social. It's not hard to choose to interact with your friends and family without the mediation of Facebook. It's much harder to use the web without submitting to corporate surveillance. Ghostery, noscript, blackholing Facebook in /etc/hosts and using duckduckgo over Google works well enough, but that's already enough trouble that only tinfoil hats bother.