Every single day I see social media used as if its ‘content’ is what it’s all about. The medium is the…

Every single day I see social media used as if its ‘content’ is what it’s all about. The medium is the message. Like here, the disconnect between what’s actually happening, and the fake imitative rivalry team sports on the socials. https://t.co/r3KT6BbhnR 1/3 https://t.co/PMZ7LwXr8l

The role of social media is to take actual reality and transform it into imitative rivalry between an endlessly proliferating set of fighting social ‘teams’. To transform adult life into continuous team sports.The fight for social status. 2/3

This generates revenue for the platforms, and performs the wider political task of protecting the status quo by engaging people in pointless argument over things they know nothing about. Social media is FAR more dangerous than AI. /end