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Social Media is this weird thing where most people can grok that it's bad, and hits all of these very nefarious aspects of the human condition in all the worst possible ways. And yet, we're unable to actually do anything about it. There has to be a word for this ... for something that everyone understands is a negative influence but we all keep around for reasons that we find difficult or complex to articulate (perhaps in a language other than English?).



Addiction? I mean there's tons of things like this. Tobacco, Alcohol, Junk Food, the list goes on.





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