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I live alone, and have friends throughout the US.

Social media kept me from attempting suicide during COVID. It helps me feel loved and connected.

Yeah, there are faults, but condemning it wholeheartedly is like suggesting we should abolish ICE cars immediately.

And suggesting we abandon it as a comment on a social media platform is ironically self-unaware.

I always try to be specific and condemn addiction engineering.

Social media before algorithmic attention hacking wasn’t nearly as bad, might have been a net good.

The first thing the algorithm destroyed was the “social” part of social media. Then it set about destroying society and kids attention spans.

> And suggesting we abandon it as a comment on a social media platform is ironically self-unaware.

Gotta reach people where they are.