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12-10-2017, 08:30 AM
This was the year we turned on social media
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With each passing day comes yet another reason (http://mashable.com/category/donald-trump/) to question the notion that the long arc of the universe bends toward justice. However, this year, in particular, has made it resoundingly clear that — regardless of the direction of that arc — the process by which it bends manifests with stuttering jolts and fits. Things seem one way to many people, until, for whatever reason (http://mashable.com/2017/12/06/time-person-of-the-year-metoo-women-sexual-harassment/), all of the sudden everyone realizes they're not.*
It is a similar reckoning that has befallen the do-no-wrong darling of the tech industry: social media (http://mashable.com/social-media/). Long heralded by its profits as a digital panacea (http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-new-direction-save-the-world/) for our fractured world, services like Facebook (http://mashable.com/2017/09/21/zuckerberg-russia-ads-release-public/) and Twitter (http://mashable.com/2017/11/17/twitter-hate-speech-symbols-december-18/) have instead come to both represent and fuel our darker natures.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/09/2017-over-it-facebook-twitter-social-media/)
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With each passing day comes yet another reason (http://mashable.com/category/donald-trump/) to question the notion that the long arc of the universe bends toward justice. However, this year, in particular, has made it resoundingly clear that — regardless of the direction of that arc — the process by which it bends manifests with stuttering jolts and fits. Things seem one way to many people, until, for whatever reason (http://mashable.com/2017/12/06/time-person-of-the-year-metoo-women-sexual-harassment/), all of the sudden everyone realizes they're not.*
It is a similar reckoning that has befallen the do-no-wrong darling of the tech industry: social media (http://mashable.com/social-media/). Long heralded by its profits as a digital panacea (http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-new-direction-save-the-world/) for our fractured world, services like Facebook (http://mashable.com/2017/09/21/zuckerberg-russia-ads-release-public/) and Twitter (http://mashable.com/2017/11/17/twitter-hate-speech-symbols-december-18/) have instead come to both represent and fuel our darker natures.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/09/2017-over-it-facebook-twitter-social-media/)
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