The decline of Facebook and the chilling effect of social media

I’m still a little amazed at how vile everyone seems to find FB usage to be when it’s been such an enormous positive in my life in the last few years here in Raleigh, as outlined here:

I mean, hey, I totally get the political ramifications of the death of privacy and the sale of the minds of our most vulnerable and impressionable racist citizens to the highest bidder, but all of you guys have this really weird view that FB is this endless procession of misery and self-centered shittiness 100% of the time in the social/psychological sphere that does not bear out with my high daily usage. Not to say that stuff doesn’t happen or exist, but it’s far and away from the only possible result.

Then again, as I noted elsewhere, you’re all old and bitter, so maybe it’s no surprise you feel this way ;-)