Is social media making us dumber? Is it making us worse? Nathan Clarkson and Joseph Holmes give social media a grade and give advice on how to be smarter about your use of your online socials.

Social media is making us dumber:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/social-media-dumber-steven-pinker.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/01/nicholas-carr-is-the-internet-making-us-stupid/681517/

Social media is (probably) not making us dumber:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/201904/social-media-probably-isn-t-making-you-stupid