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Social media companies use predatory tactics that abuse our knowledge of the human psyche to pull people into social media. It's not the fair choice you make it out to be
I’ll also add that the other people around you use social media - so if you want contact, it’s now harder than it used to be since fewer people are eager to strike up an anonymous conversation.
This has especially ruined dating.
Old media did this too. Newspapers, yellow rags, pulp fiction, special interest magazines. Chock full of physiology-abusing tricks.
As someone that doesn't use social media outside of Lemmy, it's really not as hard as people seem to make it out to be.
Says the guy arguing with everyone replying to him. Have some self-awareness for once.
"I, one of the few who lives without social media, can speak for everyone who uses them"