Do you think social media is “toxic”?

Welp, if we have to generalize - of course it is. It gives platform to many people who want to watch the world burn instead of giving something good to it. However, want it or not, we are all in some kind of bubble - so the better maintained your bubble is, the more you can get from it and therefore social media could be really useful in your life. I totally understand people who are all against it, but there's definitely more than black and white in there.

The way people use social media is toxic in some regards (what/how they share things), however social media as a product or media source is not toxic.

Not inherently, but the way the platforms amplify the most incendiary positions? Yes. We have a lot of GIGO in our algorithmic social media platforms. Technology-level, user-level and more. That has to go before we can make them the best tools possible.

Yes and no. It definitely has the potential of being toxic! It depends on the user and their intentions.

In my opinion, social media is what we make of it :) Using all the tools by Twitter, Instagram, or (less so) YouTube you can shape your timeline and followings just the way you want! If you follow toxic people, then of course social media would become toxic for you, but that could happen in real life as well if you meet toxic people 🤷‍♀️

I think it is toxic in general, however if one takes time to filter the things that appear on his feed, it can definitely be very useful.

Yes!

I would like to disagree with you. Yes, it is toxic, not because people don't use it productively, but because social media and its algorithms are designed to be toxic. It spreads disinformation and portrays a false sense of reality that detriments the mental health of its users.

Generally, yes. It depends on how you use it.

haha yes, but I still use it xD

Yes and no. Social media, like many other things, have both positive and negative sides. Social media can contain both negative, degrading content and positive, developing content. It is also important what kind of content the person himself is drawn to.

Of course, regardless of whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, or Twitter, you will find a few toxic people everywhere. You just need to ignore them and find the good in social media.

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