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I mean, do you remember high school? It's been a popularity contest ever since high schools have existed. This is just a different form.


> This is just a different form.

At scale. Significantly different. Societal fabric has enough problems without adding to it.


Also with the brightest brains in the world devoting their phds to make sure you engage.

What social media is today is IMO a significantly different from anything humans have experienced before.

That’s not to say it’s necessarily bad, but for the last 5 years or so the evidence seems to be pointing in that direction.




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