I share the skepticism, so I thought of the big picture: Is online a replacement for disappointing lives? Are people tempted to live in screen-based fantasies? Are people unhappy to be embodied beings? How'bout sickness & death?
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Well, you don't need to believe the 60s et seq. have been a good idea or done good things to ask yourself, why has the smart-phone era been so uniquely worrisome? (As opposed to the much worse worries of the late 60s-70s, when the horror was sexual violence.)
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B/c when women had to go to clubs they could *see* that they weren't the top choice of top men and didn't want to take night after night of humiliation of going home alone. Now they go on tinder and the rejections are passive / unseen and don't deflate the ego / cause distress.
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