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Cars are too prevalent in most countries, but they are undeniably very useful when used correctly. I would probably say the social media does more harm than cars, but idk if it's the worst invention. Lots of candidates.
I've been alive long enough to have become an adult before social media happened.
Social media is the correct answer.
I've never witnessed something have a more detrimental effect on society.
As an American, our discourse, especially political, went absolutely apeshit at the same time social media and smart phones started becoming a household thing. We absolutely would not be in the situation we currently find ourselves if not for social media.
There are simply too many ignorant humans for social media to be anything other than a total disaster.
What about the idea of burning oil products in general? Sure, that made powerful and light engines possible, and they have transformed economies, logistics, trade, and entire countries. However, if we hadn’t invented that, progress would have been a lot slower.
Nevertheless, I would argue that the past 200 years of industrial progress weren’t worth the climate crisis.
Social Media is too prevalent in most countries, but it is undeniably very useful when used correctly.
Completely disagree because social media has done little to nothing to advance society.
Cars can at least be linked to more people able to travel further distances. Social media? "But I can still talk to my friend in another country". I could too in the late 80s.
It's called a telephone.
I think social media apps like youtube, email, and zoom have been very useful for society. The pandemic would have killed a lot more people if not for social media.
Social media spread propaganda and politicized Covid getting people who were vaccinated for other preventable diseases avoid the Covid vaccine and die.
I'd argue more people died to the pandemic because of social media and the ease of spreading fear and disinformation.
Social media allowed teams around the world to rapidly coordinate on the invention and distribution of the vaccines. COVID had fewer deaths than the 1918 influenza pandemic despite the massive increase in population since then, in part because of social media.
You need to define "social media" because earlier you named "email" and "zoom" as examples of social media, which sounds entirely wrong. Is talking to people face to face social media too? Have you just conflated "social media" with "communication"?
And then you say social helped researchers communicate when working on cures? You want to posit that Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat were vital pathways of communication for virologists collaborating on vaccines?