Social media in the near future? “Destructive and polarizing” was the most common response In my Future 2043 survey
My question: ‘Will social media play an overall constructive role in connecting people, providing news and information, or will it have a destructive effect, increasing distrust, misinformation and polarization?’. The survey was conducted roughly two years ago.
The answer was far from positive. “Destructive and polarizing” was the dominant prediction for social media, and the respondent comments say we have a bad system that will stay bad or get worse. Some more tempered commentary suggest social media will split into subsets for niche segments, or simply become irrelevant. There was a tremendous response to this question – everybody has an opinion about social media.
See the figures and the verbatim comments:
