Their whole business model is built on collecting as much data as possible so they can target ads and keep people hooked, so being strict about privacy essentially works against their own interests. Plus, there are not strong consequences when they do mess up, so there’s less pressure to actually prioritize user privacy.

I think I'm most concerned with just how much data platforms like Instagram quietly collect and thus how easy it is for stuff to spread way beyond those who you intended to see it. Also kind of unsettling that even deleted posts or private info might still exist somewhere or get used in ways you don’t get to fully control.

I think that ignoring is often the only strategy available to me as a user (and therefore the 'best way'), whereas I believe that it is the responsibility of the relevant social media platform to itself moderate such trolling, especially by enabling self-reporting features.

This quote, from my perspective, stood out because of its emphasis on 'belief in words.' The delight in discrediting serious argument is precisely the motivator behind many trolls actions, perhaps because they themselves feel incapable of or insecure in articulating or contributing their own legitimate opinions.

I agree with this framework in terms of how I operate with regard to most situations, though I believe that existentialism often goes hand in hand with utilitarianism as people believe in or turn to the capacity of one another to determine what is morally acceptable.

I think that social media has amplified some of the worst tendencies of human beings in real life, such as our obsessions with image and popularity. In this manner, social media acts as an 'amplifier' or microscope to some of our most fundamental issues as human beings.