It's okay if you don't upvote. It's a very unpopular opinion

It's neutral. Yes, stupid people get more of a voice, but other people have made successful companies and businesses using the platform.

I agree. Giant version of the telephone game.

The free market determines what is successful, and that includes ideas.

I mean like, there are a whole lot of shitty books and you can argue that writing has given them that platform. Just as there are the same amount of idiots in the world, there are the same amount of not more of intelligent people.

Yeah, and so did the invention of the printing press!
Now people feel like they can walk up a post as many theses as they like, it's outrageous!

I think social media does a service. Before, you couldn't tell who the idiots were without meeting them and talking to them for a while. Now you can just browse a Facebook feed and be like "Yup, he's a fucking Nazi." The ones it gives a platform already had a platform; they started out having meetings then upgraded to printing pamphlets then moved to broadcast radio, then became respected talking heads on cable TV long before social media showed up. Social media is interactive though. Used to be I had to write a letter to a personality's PO Box to call them a fuckstick, now I can just leave a comment.

Nah society has always been garbage, before social media idiots just screamed the loudest

It gave smart people the same thing, you dumb bird.