Mike Masnick ✅I keep having interesting debates with people here on Mastodon, disproving the idea that it's an "echo chamber." But a few days ago, someone insisted to me that social media was obviously a net negative on society, and when someone else asked him to back that up, the user indicated that it had created echo chambers, and pointed to a short list of studies. I pointed out that the actual research did not support his conclusions, and he told me I had not read far enough... (continued...)
robpennoyer@mmasnick Do you think social media is a net positive?
@mmasnick Impossible to quantify, obviously, but shouldn't the burden of proof be on the positive side? To me it seems clear, now, that humans were not meant to be directly connected to millions or billions of other people, and certainly not by algorithms designed to increase ad revenue. But I don't have another planet to a/b test with.