Social media is not social networking. We had social networking many years before we had social media. Social…

Social media is not social networking. We had social networking many years before we had social media. Social media is the monetisation of social networking. An economy of ‘likes’. Networking replaced by influencing. Status games. 1/3

We absolutely don’t need social media to retain social networking. Social media is the hijacking of social networking by (mostly American) libertarian zealots. 2/3

Social networking is also not an intrinsic good. To connect people is to multiply violence in societies. Ask anybody who organises events why you always need ‘crowd control’. /end