As with most doomer posts, 2/3 of that is just a problem of being addicted to social media - not necessarily a problem with the era itself.

It’s weird that people didn’t get addicted to social media in other eras, isn’t it?

I mean, it’s not like social media doomerism is some mandatory thing. The internet shows us what we want to see - if someone wants to spend their whole life reading about every possible bad thing in the world, that’s on them.

Social media companies use predatory tactics that abuse our knowledge of the human psyche to pull people into social media. It’s not the fair choice you make it out to be

As someone that doesn’t use social media outside of Lemmy, it’s really not as hard as people seem to make it out to be.