Before I logged in I was thinking about this and as an old school person it is something that crosses my mind often.
Social Media is not social media, it should be called anti-social media. It may have started off that way, a means of keeping in touch with friends, but that is not how Social Media companies (SMC) make money. The user is the product, the more the SMCs can keep you engaged the more advertising they sell and the richer they get. So arguments, contentious statements etc etc work very much in their favour.
But now there still remains two questions:
1) Why post on Social media?
Do you really stand in the middle of town and shout out some message? No, well why do it on the internet? If you want to have banter and chat with your friends then email still exists, or just stick to close groups on the popular platforms (remembering that for instance WhatsApp and Facebook are now going to start sharing - they probably have been for a long time - some data).
2) Why read social media?
Why pay attention to what some stranger has said? Why let it bother you? What are their motives in saying something? To look big? To look hard? To look "in the know"? (Where is he btw?)
https://xkcd.com/386/
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/07/so...-the-internet/
And what is worse is that the some of the behaviour seen on anti-social media seems to have spread into real life such as some of the sub-human behaviour seen towards the Trews, extending even to their kids.
And if you are going to use SM make sure you know how to use it properly - as AH didn't much to his cost.
The brothers Reedtz seem to have the right idea providing they do engage from time to time and not hide in an ivory tower as some owners of some clubs appear to do.
And having read what I have written I don't know why I'm posting. Maybe I feel some sense of community here and so don't view this as much as the more popular SM sites, even though really it is. And there are certainly a few posters I'd rather not meet. They might be quite different in real life.
Perhaps anonymity should be removed from all public postings. But then that would be bad for SM business and we couldn't have that could we?