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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Could it perhaps be a useful way to redirect our bellicose instincts rather than have actual civil wars?
Until the enraged flamers start censoring and doxxing and swatting each other, sure.
