Subjectively, I’ve seen friends and family get sucked into social media and change into more toxic versions of themselves. Or maybe they were always assholes, and social media just lent them a specific, hivemind kind of flavor, which triggered my alarms? Hard to say.
Fwiw, I am a lot more compelled by the general story “we are now seeing examples of bad behavior from the ‘other’ side that are selected across hundreds of millions of people, instead of thousands of people; our intuitions are not calibrated for this” (see e.g. here). That issue seems like a consequence of more global reach + more recording of bad stuff that happens. Though if I were planning to make it my career I would spend way more time figuring out whether that story is true as well.
Thanks, that’s good to hear.
Fwiw, I am a lot more compelled by the general story “we are now seeing examples of bad behavior from the ‘other’ side that are selected across hundreds of millions of people, instead of thousands of people; our intuitions are not calibrated for this” (see e.g. here). That issue seems like a consequence of more global reach + more recording of bad stuff that happens. Though if I were planning to make it my career I would spend way more time figuring out whether that story is true as well.