Comment no current social media site benefits society (Score 2) 169
Current social media profits from viral/mob thoughts/beliefs. The bigger the mob, the bigger the segment is for advertisers.
A "good" social media site would be closer to a non-electronic human social circle.
You have social circles based on the people you interact with. Your family, your schoolmates, your co-workers, your running group, your knitting group, your poker group
Secondary group would be organizations that you associate with but you do not know personally: Your entire school, your entire company, your church...
As the groups get bigger they become more disconnected from you personally, and carry less weight.
If something happens in the news, it would get filtered through your groups. perhaps you are "six degrees" away from the event.
With current social media, it is all flipped. Some political leader or famous person gives a view point, and the follower mob reacts to that directly.
Current social media has shown itself to be a net-negative for humanity.