Social media didn't make you an ignorant jerk. It let you become the ignorant jerk you wanted to be.
Ben Dreyfuss is responding.
(This is the first of a series of posts in response to Jonathan Haidt’s Atlantic essay “Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid.”)
When Facebook first launched, users had a profile page which they would fill in with photos and their favorite bands and their relationship status, and other things …
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