Comment by jaapz

The entire point of the internet is connecting small communities into one large community - this allows the sharing of information at literal light speed across huge distances.

> If psychologists and anthropologists were techies and influencers of early Internet, we wouldn't have built such experiences in the first place.

How would they have done anything differently? The social part of the internet also started out as (very) small communities. They still exist, too, but are relatively niche and certainly less active then they were before.