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The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People had died and gang wars were made. That’s how popular anime and media got inspiration to get crime stories started.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow... didn't actually know that... sad 😔.