Social Media and Other Diseases

There's something fascinating about social media—the way it spreads, the way it mutates and transforms, the way it seeks its targets. A kind of organic activity seems to pulse within it, as though it were alive. As though it were a virus. An infection. We don't join Twitter and Facebook. We catch them, like a disease.

That's a useful metaphor, of course, which is why Glenn Reynolds uses it so extensively in The Social Media Upheaval, his new and much needed jeremiad against the online businesses that infest us. But we may need to understand Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, all the well-known platforms, as something more than viruses—for they work with an efficiency that Yellow Fever and the Black Death could only envy. Social media worms its way into our lives, using us even more than we use it, till no one can tell the parasite from the host.

https://freebeacon.com/culture/social-media-and-other-diseases/

interdasting points here. kinda reminds me of fight club and the idea of 'things' that we have. almost like an ever expounding abnormal growth that seemingly people cannot move away from.

maybe more people could meditate and/or pray