This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins

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This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
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This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins::The global town square is in ruins.

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I'd say all these articles about social media saying it's broken are just about maintaining the illusion of something better. As long as they can keep it up, people are going to think "it's bad but it shouldn't be!" and just keep coming back hoping it improves. And that can keep social media alive with everything it can do for everybody using it as an income stream.

It has never informed users and a pet peeve of mine is governments using fucking twitter to communicate. And businesses too lazy to create their own webpages (or pay somebody to do it for them) and pay for some hosting (deductible as a business expense, by the way) so they use fecebook instead.

Also, as somebody mentioned in a different comment, it is actually the town square, as it always was (I believe their comment evoked witch trials as an example).

I’d say all these articles about social media saying it’s broken are just about maintaining the illusion of something better.

Every article about how "social media is broken" are just avoiding the obvious painful truth: Humanity is broken.

I mean you're not wrong. But here we are. If you've ever tried to convince anyone of... well anything that conflicts with their views, you're probably well aware that there's no changing peoples' minds.

So I guess my honest question is... what now?

What we've always done. Soldier on fighting the good fight hoping reasonable minds prevail. And knowing that often they won't.

Wish I had a solution.