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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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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There needs to be *some* boundaries to lend structure to the environment. Otherwise, people spend all their time trying to defend boundaries that allow a community to flourish...without ever doing things within the community.
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