For the past year or so, I’ve labelled social media as a social disease. I’ve told people that were it not an essential part of a writer’s platform for promoting their work, I would have been gone about five years ago and never looked back.Social media has inflicted egregious damage on our society through fake news, presenting customized “facts” that fit your beliefs, generating self-image problems, fracturing families and friendships, eroding mental health, enraging people into physically attacking others, and driving many to suicide.
I don’t give a damn what your political persuasion is. Your emotions and decisions are being not merely influenced, but manipulated by billion dollar corporations for the sake of profit.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix and hear it straight from several key people who set our self-destruction in motion.