"Social media isn't inherently bad, if people across the world can learn how to self-curate." Is equivalent to "Social media is bad" IMO.
There are always going to be "enough" people who can't self-curate that social media will be harmful.
There are always going to be "enough" people who can't self-curate that social media will be harmful.
Sure there are millions upon millions of books. Someone who enjoys reading won't elect to read books they know are a waste of time or something that will be offensive to them.
Same can be said for consuming newspapers (anyone else just skip the front page and go right to a special section you actually care about, like sports or business instead of politics?), TV, movies, video games? Music?
So are all things bad because some people are incapable of deciding for themselves how to consume said things?
You simply cannot compare reading books to taking opium, for instance.
The argument isn't whether social media is toxic but whether users can do some work themselves to filter out as much of the toxicity as possible and still benefit from using it.
This thread is really just a circle; things in the right moderation aren't so unhealthy.