
4 Questions to Help You Decide Within days, friends started texting me, had I seen The Social Dilemma yet? On Facebook, others announced they were deleting their account — all because of the Netflix documentary. They were asking because I have been researching social media and teaching how to build boundaries around it for a couple years. The documentary tangibly outlines some alarming trends we

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Social media has evolved from a novel communication experiment into a dominant global infrastructure shaping attention, identity, commerce, politics, and religion. By 2026, nearly half of the world’s population engages regularly with at least one social platform. What began as profile-based digital networking has matured into algorithmically curated ecosystems designed to maximize engagement, monetize attention, and influence behavior at scale.