atomicpoet, (edited ) I'm not denying Philippa Moore's life experiences. But I do think that the media panic over social media is getting out of hand.
Certainly, there's dogpiling and harassment and doomscrolling.
But I also think if people clearly understood that they can use social media in a healthy manner, their lives would improve immensely.
Take me. I saw something traumatizing on Facebook -- specifically, a live broadcast of Muslims getting mowed down by a gunman in a New Zealand mosque.
So what did I do? I deleted Facebook. And every time a social media network proves toxic, I delete it.
But we can also choose to run social media ourselves, on our terms, perhaps on our own servers too.
We must master social media. Otherwise social media becomes our master.