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Social media merely a communication system, the information that transmitted is the problem. Much like money isn't the cause of corruption, like some people in high places would want you to think about certain digital coins. The social hierarchies, the bullying, has all existed previous to social media. The only thing social media has done is be a magnifying glass on those things and put you in an addictive loop exposing you to them. Ridding or reducing social media to solve the problem is akin to the logic you get in therapy, just think about something else, notice your bad thoughts and think about something else in its place. Or what I like to call, ignoring the root problems, which is the toxic social hierarchies and bullying.


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