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1. snovymgodym · 1790442667 · focus · HN ↗

   A really toxic part of online interactions is that it's very common for people to see a tiny snippet of another person's life and then project all of their own personal resentments onto them.

   1. everyone · 1790444190 · focus · HN ↗

      Is there any benefit to social media? Just seems like a new form of cancer we have to deal with now along with everything else.

      1. pipes · 1790445084 · focus · HN ↗

         A place for those who would be marginalised by their own community, gay, religious apostates etc etc.

         Communicating with relatives on the other side of the world.

         Maintaining old friendships that would have died due to distance.

         Somewhere to find like minded people.

         Somewhere like hacker news (I count it as social media top) where I discovered great books, expanded my horizons and learnt that there were other ways at looking at the world.

         Anyway, it's not all bad :)

         1. everyone · 1790445306 · focus · HN ↗

            You can do most of that with IRC. There's a distinction imo between static webpages / IRC / forums, and modern "social media".

            1. egeozcan · 1790445601 · focus · HN ↗

               I don't use social media much myself, but I feel that this is going in the direction of that infamous dropbox comment.

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