"...40% of social media users would give up their pet or car before they'd give up their accounts...This is…

"...40% of social media users would give up their pet or car before they'd give up their accounts...This is not healthy behavior. Social media is currently designed for virality and addiction." 1/4 https://t.co/mOTQb5ywGM

Ironically, depression and loneliness drive many to the platforms, which the same research finds are dramatically amplified, by being on social media. Sociality is not an intrinsic good. It can be extremely damaging, because at root sociality is violence. 2/4

This was the core of Rene Girard's work, the fundamental social violence that he saw as the default state of all societies. Any tool that amplifies sociality, will amplify violence, both physical and mental. 3/4

And to the absolutists, no this doesn't mean throw it all away. It means question the benefits of hyper-connection. And thoroughly interrogate technologies that hyper-socialise societies, for enormous revenues. /end