Social Media is Behavioral Cocaine

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.But . . .Early techno-philosophers envisioned the internet as a tool, a weapon for the Ninety-Nine Percenters.They would use that new tool to democratize despots, oligarchs, and monopolies.And yet what happened was the exact opposite.The internet produced even more powerful monopolies. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and the list goes on. And on.And instead

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of a place to enlighten, the internet became a place where users vomit up every tiny detail of their lives.The internet was supposed to make the powerful transparent.Instead it made the powerless transparent.The Ninety-Nine Percenter Davids thought they could unmask the One-Percenter Goliaths.But for the Davids, the internet wasn’t a giant-slayer slingshot.It was a boomerang.</article></body>

And we’ve snorted up the original hope of the internet

I’m not a Luddite.

And I certainly understand I wouldn’t be writing this without all the advances in computer technology.

But . . .

Early techno-philosophers envisioned the internet as a tool, a weapon for the Ninety-Nine Percenters.

They would use that new tool to democratize despots, oligarchs, and monopolies.

And yet what happened was the exact opposite.

The internet produced even more powerful monopolies. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and the list goes on. And on.

And instead of a place to enlighten, the internet became a place where users vomit up every tiny detail of their lives.

The internet was supposed to make the powerful transparent.

Instead it made the powerless transparent.

The Ninety-Nine Percenter Davids thought they could unmask the One-Percenter Goliaths.

But for the Davids, the internet wasn’t a giant-slayer slingshot.

It was a boomerang.