According to the video, divisiveness is incredibly useful if you wish for something to go viral - having something that immediately forces someone to have an opinion and 'take a side' means you can have a never-ending debate between those that agree and those that disagree. Eventually the two groups devolve into a circle-jerk - rather than continuing to engage with the other side, most of their effort is spent on creating a caricature or straw-man of the opposing side's viewpoints and saying to themselves "Gosh, how stupid are they! They really ruffle my feathers!" etc etc.

Although he could be talking about any sort of disagreement, it's hard not to see the comparison to the recent U.S. election in which the HuffingtonPost, in it's never-ending partisan support of the Democratic Establishment and it's insatiable desire to see a Vagina in the white house was able to rationalize to themselves at one point that "Donald Trump has a 98% chance of defeat." Much to the chagrin of the circle-jerk that is HuffPo and it's followers, it didn't help them.

Much of the criticism to Rand Paul's stand against the Patriot Act was the idea that "government surveillance of it's citizens helps keep them safe." Yet the evidence says otherwise. Not only is government surveillance a blatant disregard of the fourth amendment (the right to privacy), requires an enormous amount of effort on the part of the government workers, tasked with checking up on it's citizens - but furthermore, it has only shown to be highly ineffective. There is little question that the excuse of safety is little more than a veil for further government overreach.

Idealistically, the nuclear family allows for the healthiest upbringing of a child. In the case of a divorce, children tend to blame themselves for the divorce. I could be mistaken on this, but it seems as if the child develops a sort of... 'hypersensitivity' - which is similar to what occurs in children that are raised by narcissistic parents. Often in the case of divorce, arguments between parents arise - for a young child it is only natural to develop a fear of this and possibly an element of learned helplessness - being that they are too young and fragile to be able to fight either parent. Even if no fights occur, the divorce itself creates a sense of insecurity - being that parents are worse off financially and there is always the question of "How best to divvy up the custody of the child?"

This article is nothing new. While FaceBook does enable such problems such as "FaceBook depression", sexting and cyberbullying - to pin the blame on the technology rather than the individuals who use it is a rather glaring oversight. Sexting and cyberbullying has been around ever since the rise of phones and the creation of the internet. FaceBook and social media in general is simply an easy target.

"Other problems such as social network-induced obesity, Internet addiction and sleep deprivation are issues that continue to be under intense scrutiny for the contradictory results that have been obtained in various studies."

Precisely zero explanation as to just 'how' social media supposedly forces it's users to become obese. I am left to wonder if this article is anything more than simply hyperbolic rhetoric for those who already agree with the writer's contention.

Once again, the writer seems to be interested in pinning anything they can against FaceBook, rather than acknowledging such problems exist even without FaceBook and other social media.

Cyberbullying has become fashionable to critique, but there is little reason to suggest that cyberbullying is more of a problem than in-real-world bullying.

"Sexting, the action of sending sexually revealing pictures of themselves or sexually explicit messages to another individual or group, is another common activity among the teen community in social media."

Oh no! Cue the fake moral outrage! Teenagers are horny little basturds and you're never going to 'save them' from the throes of skyrocketing testosterone in puberty.

"Adolescence is the time to spread wings and take the tentative first flight out into the world, and parents and caregivers must be part of the process."

Amazing. It appears as if we've come full circle. This is the generation which has coddled it's young - engaging in blatant fear-mongering - encouraging it's parents and the young to believe in the idea that pedos and rapists are lurking behind every corner. To then critique the young for spending too much time at home demonstrates no matter what you do, you will never be able to appease the Gods.

In regards to an 'Addictive Personality'