[ohmy987]

> The future of our society is in a large part online

I wonder how accurate this is.

I have no account in any social media except in LinkedIn (which I see more as a job portal than social media), and that's how I raise my kids. I live without facebook, instagram, twitter, or whatever else and I'd risk to say life is better without those.

[FollowingTheDao]

It is not accurate. This person is one of those extremes they talk about in the paper.

"For instance, news stories that express outgroup animosity are 67% more likely to be shared on social media (Rathje et al., 2021). "

They are holding an extreme view and posting it online.

[saagarjha]

You’re on social media right now fwiw

[averageRoyalty]

Are they? Personally (and I know many others agree with this) I wouldn't class BBS', forums, an online guestbook, Steam etc as 'social media'. I can't quite qualify the delineation, but it is there.