The danger of social media isn’t about information. Societies don’t run on information. They run on trust,…

The danger of social media isn’t about information. Societies don’t run on information. They run on trust, which runs on status hierarchies. Social media destroys those hierarchies, often established over centuries. 1/2 https://t.co/drjcxGnXVk https://t.co/mmSmilVGJi

How did we get this idea that millions of people are out there every day processing the vast quantity of information societies generate? They’re not. They trust others to know different bits of it. Social media replaces many of those others with dangerous numpties. /end