A question for whoever reads this:
How do you think society will eventually conquer social media addiction? Or if you think we won't how do you think this affects humanity?
I would appreciate it if you help my question spread further by boosting it.
@gpowerf Social media is just a mechanism.
When did we conquer our letter-writing addiction? When the phone was popularized.
When did we conquer our phone addiction? When texting came about.
Humans aren't addicted to social media; they're addicted to being social. Social media just gives us a relatively safe space to quell those social desires with groups more like-minded than could be easily found offline.
So, to answer your question, we'll get over our social media addiction when the next, more addictive thing comes along... probably a device to allow us to upload our thoughts to the internet in real time with an ML algo to choose which thoughts are post-worthy and which thoughts go straight to the ad network for "more relevant content".
