I think that it’s going to take a long time for anyone to really study and understand how social media affects us.
The whole piece is interesting, but I pulled this mostly unremarkable bit because, well—
Lately, watching For All Mankind in which everyone is smoking at NASA and everywhere else all the time, it struck me that social media could, in 50 years, be a thing we look back on like smoking: harmful and dumb and active.
Authentic shows about the 2020s made in 2070 will have to have all their characters checking Facebook and Twitter and Messages and Instagram their phones all the time.
Worse, we let our pre-teens do it and Facebook has developed its answer to Joe Camel.