現代のSNSは容易に正義感などの感情を振りかざせるようデザインされている

「SNSは不健全な状態だ」とLinuxの生みの親リーナス・トーバルズがインタビューで言及によると、LinusがTwitterやFacebookにおけるライクやシェアのデザインを以下のように批判したらしい。

正義心などの感情的な反応を引き出すようにデザインされている

原文だと

I think part of it is something that email shares too, and that I’ve said before: “On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle”. When you’re not talking to somebody face to face, and you miss all the normal social cues, it’s easy to miss humor and sarcasm, but it’s also very easy to overlook the reaction of the recipient, so you get things like flame wars, etc., that might not happen as easily with face-to-face interaction.

But email still works. You still have to put in the effort to write it, and there’s generally some actual content (technical or otherwise). The whole “liking” and “sharing” model is just garbage. There is no effort and no quality control. In fact, it’s all geared to the reverse of quality control, with lowest common denominator targets, and click-bait, and things designed to generate an emotional response, often one of moral outrage.