Comment by svara
15 days ago
Everything's on a spectrum, but there's a point where you're so far along on the spectrum that it makes sense to call it something else.
See, "quantity has a quality of its own".
Sometimes you have to leave the theoretical view aside and just look out the window. How are people using this? Is it hurting them? What can we do about it?
I don't like blanket bans, but putting TikTok and, say, a publishing company marketing novels, in the same category because they strive for an audience, doesn't clarify anything. It just confuses the discussion.
I don't know man. It all reminds me very much of people trying to ban rock n roll back in the day.
I hear you, and that's where my mind goes first on this issue too.
But with social media, many of the people most into it, when asked, will say they wish it didn't exist.
A lot of kids feel they have to be on it, but wish it didn't exist.
People sound and behave more like actual drug addicts than just mere fans of a medium around social media.