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Every coin has a head behind a tail, every die a six behind a one, every stamp a sticker behind a face. In much the same way, every technology has a virtue behind a vice, a benefit behind a drawback, something beneficial behind something sorely detrimental.
The television that supplies important news also promotes vile entertainment; the engine that provides propulsion also produces pollution; the nuclear fission that powers a city also risks destroying that city. Such is life and technology in a world marred by sin.
In just this way, social media can be used for good and ill. It can display human beings at their best and worst; their most gracious and most condescending; their most humble and most prideful. The greater part of the blame lies not with the technology itself but with those who use it, for social media does little more than display who we really are and repeat what we really believe. It is our hearts and minds turned outward in snippets of text, bursts of video, and carefully filtered photographs.
