Isn't this forum social media in some form? (Off-Topic)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Friday, March 04, 2016, 19:42 (3189 days ago) @ Robot Chickens

Another option to avoid anger germs: quit social media.

If not, it certainly carries thought germs in the same way. There's no share button, but our brains are good vectors. I don't think social media is the problem. There is no simple solution unless you argue that we should cut ourselves off from social human contact.

Sure it's social media in some form, but it's not free-range social media. I'm not going to say that the latter is wholly bad or even mostly bad, but I do think there are negative consequences when it's used as a primary source of information. And it'd be foolish to say that the tools we use to communicate do not influence the way we communicate. (A letter I write with a fountain pen is always different than an e-mail I compose.) I'd take it further and say that the way we communicate through social media can and often does negatively affect how we communicate outside of social media (see Sherry Turkle).