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Social media will be the smoking of our generation.

In a century, they’ll wonder how we could possibly have kept engaging knowing the harm we were doing to ourselves.

>>jon_ri+(OP)
Is the harm really on that level? What is the magnitude of harm?

>>jon_ri+(OP)
Completely agree

>>therea+Es
Yeah, let’s just keep smoking cigarettes, using leaded gasoline, and spewing carbon into the air until we know for sure how bad it is.

>>jon_ri+lL
I’ll admit some things are cut n dry. Will you admit some things are not cut n dry?

You’re forcing a direct comparison with one category, but how do I know that’s the correct comparison?

I won’t claim to follow it closely but every one of these I’ve seen shows a small impact to a small subset of vulnerable users. That’s a far cry from other things that are universally damaging.