I see this idea of: human beings are social creatures. And how some argue that we are born "social" and articles upon articles, using fancy language and appearing scientific about the topic. What I think they are trying to say is that humans NEED some human-to-human connections to survive and thrive. And when they lack that, they suffer. This may be true with infants who indeed need someone to take care of them and teach them about the world, but once humans are tall enough to stand on their two feet, and loud enough to language themselves into conversations, then they may or may not need these connections. I fail to see where is this "hard core science" that humans are born one way or another....

I care not about relationships and I've been a loner for most of my life. And when relationships happen and I enjoyed them, then great. When not, then great. It is all about how the environment shapes us. I doubt I can be "socially excluded" and feel bad about it, since I do not measure myself inside any group. These are the things I learned.

So to use this shaky and blurry pseudo-scientific argument that humans are by nature social, so that's why facebook and the like "work" because they tap into this evolutionary bug, is simply retarded. Facebook and the like "work" simple because humans grow up in this society and they LEARN that being on fb is cool and "needed". You kick them out, and they suffer (of course). I, for one, am not on fb and do not "suffer" because fb banned me or I am not part of this "group". I have a satisfying life, so I don't need a "social" platform to "socialize".

Same with conspiracy theories and all that....people don't fall for these because of some biological predisposition, they fall for these because of their environment. They know nothing about how the world works or how science is done or journalism in general, they grow up with netflix and movies, they see a society that's corrupted....so ofc they believe all kinds of retarded stuff that they see on these ad-networks that pretend to be social-networks, because these networks promote whatever clicks more, since they are in the business of attention and data trading.

Simple minds growing up with stories and nonsense + organizations/individuals that create retarded conspiracies pushed by the desire to "grow" their user base (since growth can mean money/power) + social-networks that are actually ad-netrowks promoting whatever clicks more = conspiracy theorists.

It is simple, really. So stop making it complicated and murdering science by stabbing it with bad psychology "research" and fancy-complicated words. #tromlive