Polarisation gets the blame, but the lasting damage from social media might be flattening — every subject arrives at the same size, in the same box, with the same three reactions available, whether it is a war or a sandwich.
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The format is the argument. A genocide and a football transfer get the same card, the same buttons, and forty seconds each, and after a while your sense of proportion just goes.
@kitp and the reactions available shape what you feel. If the only options are approve, disapprove and laugh, you will find yourself sorting grief into one of them.
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something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.