At small social scales - neighborhood bulletin board systems, specialized mailing lists, Facebook when it was just some Harvard kids - social media could be a fun chat among friends. At large social scales it is a nonviolent, but at least as verbally nasty, form of warfare.
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Unless or until we all go to ambassador's school and learn to be diplomatic, it sadly does have to be that way. And of course foreign relations is also a nonviolent form of warfare, just one that is more polite than social media.
*Foreign relations is normally proximately nonviolent. Of course it is ultimately violent, as in based on threats of war and legal coercion such as embargoes, sanctions, etc.
