Social media is anti-social. This statement is not intended to be funny or clever. It's a plain-spoken assessment of social media ecosystems in 2018. The medium entangles identity with ideas. As fact and fiction blur, the cognitive appeal of stereotyping overwhelms cognition.
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Since 240 character tweets are *almost* context free we rely too heavily on that mode of cognition for evaluation. And chronic use induces an over-reliance even outside of social media. The end result is that stereotypes contribute too much to the accepted updates to our beliefs.
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That's not to say that identity *should* be separated from ideas -- that's neither possible nor useful. It's just that social media makes stereotyping too convenient. We're so miserly with cognition that it induces pathological effects.
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