Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      I worry about that shit more than I do what social is doing. The fact Meta, Google, MS, etc can control actual parts of the internet is just beyond wild to me.

      Go capitalism 🙃

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      11 months ago

      Doesn’t seem to matter where you go these days, you still run into cloudflare, somewhere along the chain. They’re omnipresent in a way other companies aren’t.

      Pain in the ass sometimes, but god damn do they make great services.