Wonderful post @snoreball. You are on point. The only thing that means of social media did, is to add anonymity in some cases, but it gave people a forum to air their dirty laundry and be ugly. In all cases, it is people who hurt people whether it's a gun, a car or words. Sadly, words to the most damage. Growing up we were told words can never hurt us. That as long as we know what the truth is that is all that matters. It plainly is not true, words are as damaging as they are uplifting.

Here on Steemit we're a test so to speak. Can society be decentralized? Be mindful of others? Speak their minds without being called names? For the most part yes. Are we any different from other forms of social media? Sure we are, that is why we're a test. If you don't like something, you just move on.

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