Exercise: Critique the model response

Social capital is not the same as the number of connections or followers. Research on social support shows that the quality of connections and mutual obligations matters far more than numbers alone when it comes to stress and health.

Frictionless connection refers to a situation in which digital communication requires no physical presence, temporal commitment, or sacrifice, and social media is designed to make such connection as easy and engaging as possible.

Research shows that younger generations use social media for 8 to 10 hours a day on average, and this directly leads to them gathering less frequently in the real world than older generations did.

Social resilience, that is, the ability of a community to withstand and recover from shocks, depends in part on whether people know their neighbors, trust institutions, and can work together when something goes wrong. This is confirmed in studies of communities following natural disasters.

The algorithms on Instagram and TikTok are scientifically proven to cause depression in the vast majority of teenagers, and the study conducted by Jonathan Haidt in 2023 shows that 73 percent of teenagers suffer from significant distress due to social media.

Social media has completely replaced physical community among young people, and therefore the younger generation does not need to learn real-world communication skills as older generations did.

Physical presence creates a context that is difficult to replicate electronically: general expression, facial expressions, body language, sharing the same space, and the informal things that happen when people are together for a long time. This is not nostalgia bias but a measurable difference in the flow of information between people.