If, when you participate in online platforms, you notice a nasty thing inside yourself, an insecurity, a sense of low self-esteem, a yearning to lash out, to swat someone down, then leave that platform. Simple.

online asshole-supremacy problem

In BUMMERland, it seems as if every little comment either turns into a contest for total personal invalidation and destruction, or else everyone has to get all nicey-nicey and fake.

SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING YOU INTO AN ASSHOLE

Prohibitions are engines of corruption that split societies into official and criminal sectors. Laws work best when they are reasonably aligned with incentives.

Universal cognitive blackmail

“Behaviors of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent”? BUMMER.

Some have compared social media to the tobacco industry,fn5 but I will not. The better analogy is paint that contains lead. When it became undeniable that lead was harmful, no one declared that houses should never be painted again. Instead, after pressure and legislation, lead-free paints became the new standard.fn6 Smart people simply waited to bu

The problem is in part that we are all carrying around devices that are suitable for mass behavior modification.