What is the value of social media?

We all know it distracts us, takes us away from family and friends, where our only connection is maybe a photograph that could have been shared in person? Especially sites like this, where none of those characteristics exist, like seeing your family and friends? It feels as social media creates more isolation and loneliness than a smile in person while people stare into a screen to tell a story they could have in voice.

What gives?

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OogieBoogie · F

Yeeaaahhh, but youre assuming everyone has family and friends.

Social media can be terribly toxic, addictive and awful for ones mental health.....but conversely, can also help people thru crisis, trauma, isolation and make one feel heard, valued....even seen.

It is the modern double edged sword of society.

What you say can also be true of phones....computers, TV's, ....any sort of addiction really, even the seemingly harmless ones like getting fit, model making etc.
I know my dad lived in his shed - he was a workaholic

I know people who prefer to read, than go out

This is but a new tool that is only as good as its user. And the needs it satisfies are just as individual.

For some people who are homestuck, places like this give them a sociability that they could not otherwise have.