{"id":656784,"date":"2026-08-24T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=656784"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:45:00","slug":"anti-social-media-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=656784","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Anti-Social Media<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Social media may have been built to connect people, but entertainment and diversion now appear to be its main draws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/36529\/important-aspects-of-social-media\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Felix Richter reports, <\/a>according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/global-consumer-survey\/tool\/44\/pro_usa_202600_mda\/?index=0&amp;absolute=1&amp;population=0&amp;missing=0&amp;rows%5B0%5D=v0411_soci_socialmedia_purchasecriteria&amp;columns%5B0%5D=v0013c_demo_agecat&amp;tgeditor=0\">Statista Consumer Insights<\/a>, <strong>nearly half of U.S. respondents say entertainment is an important criterion when it comes to social media, ahead of passing time and communicating with friends and family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/36529\/important-aspects-of-social-media\/\" title=\"Infographic: Being Social Is Not a Priority on Social Media These Days | Statista\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infographic: Being Social Is Not a Priority on Social Media These Days | Statista\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/36529.jpeg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among young adults aged 18 to 29, the social dimension of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1164\/social-networks\/\">social media<\/a>\u00a0is even less pronounced: 32 percent cite staying in touch with friends and family as important, compared with 37 percent who value simply passing time.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>only 25 percent naming meeting new people as a priority,<\/strong> the findings illustrate how social platforms increasingly function as an <strong>always-on source of content, diversion and passive consumption<\/strong>, as opposed to it original purpose of staying in touch with friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 08\/24\/2026 &#8211; 02:45<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/36529.jpeg\" title=\"Anti-Social Media\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Social Media Social media may have been built to connect people, but entertainment and diversion now appear to be its main draws. As Statista&#8217;s Felix Richter reports, according to Statista Consumer Insights, nearly half of U.S. respondents say entertainment is an important criterion when it comes to social media, ahead of passing time and communicating&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=656784\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Social Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/656779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}