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• It makes me sad to see a parent scrolling through his/her phone while walking with a child. Such missed opportunity for connection. It even bugs me if the person is walking his/her dog! And to see people in restaurants seated at the same table, but one or both...

  April 11, 2026 at 8:31 pmsusieb22

• I'll turn 71 next month. Old enough to miss out on the social media bandwagon, young enough to have a million better things to do. I don't enjoy modern society enough to invite it into my daily life on a crazy commercial basis. When I was a kid, I took...

  April 11, 2026 at 5:24 amDon

• Thank you. A great analysis of what the social media phenomenon really is and what it robs from our lives. I do manage to put FB to good use, having friends around the world - and guarding always getting sucked in to the FB void by stuff I don't need...

  April 11, 2026 at 12:35 amChristy

• I've had no part of social media for several years now. I likely miss some things that could benefit me in ways, but it's clear to me it's not worth it. Some growing percentage of people live some growing percentage of their lives virtually, which is not being human. Door-dash...

  April 10, 2026 at 4:24 pmJoseph

• People have used the word antisocial as a kind of inevitable wordplay on "social media" but it's pretty appropriate! There's a degradation of empathy, a transactional nature to it even though ultimately it's real people on both ends.

  April 10, 2026 at 3:08 pmDavid Cain