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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. TFNA · 1790446493 · focus · HN ↗

            You are describing old-school social-network designs that began to be marginalized already before Covid, not modern social media. The latter would prefer that you not forge or maintain authentic connections with other human beings, but rather doomscroll through endless-scroll content.

            Keeping in touch with relatives or friends in much of the world has long since moved to chat apps like WhatsApp instead of an open social network.

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