Social Media is the ruin of Civil Discourse and Debate

And the people who run social media want it that way.

I began considering the effects of social media by complaining about the things sites like Facebook and Google+ do not allow, like quoting from one another's posts and sustaining long and involved and possibly contentious conversations. This is also related to the poor handling of bullying and trolling in Social Media and how, because of the lack of features to control conversations, people who run blogs resort to self-policing and other social pressure, their trolls, to police their sites.

This is a damper on healthy discussions and leads to Political Correctness, and censorship.

But, this is what the business people who run and profit the most from social media want. It is also one of the factors in the poisoned and dysfunctional political system in the United States and to poor political dialogue and problem solving in the rest of the world. The people who invest in social media for a marketplace full of nice-nice do not realize how much they are playing with fire and how it could blow up in their faces.

Greed in fueling a political reaction, and it is in addition to the failings of the world economy and finance, it is discontent with the quality of the discussion and the lack of opportunity for it to really solve problems. There are many who disagree with me, but they too often don't know any better as their platform to communicate has been restricted to the blog.

The biggest offender is Mark Zuckerberg, by Google is not far behind, trading effective communication for marketing opportunities. Even though Facebook looks like it is still growing as it expands into "emerging markets", one's experience on the website is one of diminishing returns as the urge to turn everybody into a marketer begins to down everybody out. People will use it less and less as it goes the same way of broadcast and increasing on-line media drowning us in advertising. The idea of a Facebook share is the abused feature that turns everyone into a marketer and given that people often don't write anything original in their shares and many shares don't allow for reply; Facebook is like every other one way marketing scheme. In that one choice not to allow for wiode open reply to shares, Facebook is a censor.