Language is a virus, and ideas are communicable.
People internalize this dramatic, emotionally fraught way of seeing the world they've been taught on #facebook or #twitter and in turn transmit it to others; they carry it with them to other interactions. I definitely see people using the same kind of sensationalized emotive #clickbait rhetorical style on #mastodon. But they didn't learn it here.
from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia #bsxp