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Agreed. I’m pretty sure future generations will look at our social media habits like we look at this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7355737/amp/The-chi...

> Social media is to the 2020s what cigarettes were to the 50s

That is an interesting thought. Thanks!

And not a new one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498

Thanks. new to me anyway!

That remains to be seen. Studies purporting to show the harms of social media are shaky at best. It could very well turn out to be more benign like TVs or violent video games (remember the pearl clutching around those in the early 2000s?).

Who are you to decide for people that they cannot smoke and eat McDonald’s

I thoroughly despise the frankly Puritan attitude that society should prevent people from harming themselves