-- As someone just entering his old fogey stage, 53, I will just say this. Media and even social media or (interactive) was information, then information that could be discussed. Neither of those are a particular threat. Modern social media, or targeted, is social decay and naturally divisive.
-- When you read an old newspaper, you may have been looking at one story, but you might notice another and read it as well. Thus expanding your knowledge.
-- When we post, cheer, argue on a forum like this one, AT LEAST you are absorbing other viewpoints. You may never agree, but that is fine, at least you are seeing them.
-- The modern targeted form of algorithm information, will naturally lead to hardened positions, with less and less room for compromise, because what you believe just gets reinforced, and you think anyone saying anything different must be lying to you, because "everything" you have seen and read agrees with you.
-- This will never be a good thing.
-- And finally, GET OFF MY LAWN....
Mase