Let's promote some fundamental understanding on how these systems
(read: ANY social infrastructure that is a result of collective
concentration of resources) drain the energy of participants in order
to concentrate power, and how we can prevent that drain from our
human-to-human connections (prevention lies in the determination of
pathways BY THE individuals involved). Now it might be that some
socio-technical infrastructure might offer the individuals a pathway
which they are happy to use, but in the vast majority of cases, the
socio-technical infrastructure is imposed virtually without choice on
anyone who happens to be nominally participating in the social
system. Participation and the consequent adaption to the normative
is required to be a part of the social system to begin with. Lack of
adaption is either passively or actively punished. Adaption/Adoption
is rewarded -- why would anyone want 2500 friends -- except to have
the pride of social power and position. In a social system that
values pride, power, influence, and visual appearance, what young
person would risk punishment to forge an existence outside of that?
