Are we going to ignore the ways social media is actually different by pretending nothing is new?

Social media actively makes people focus on minmaxing in order to get views/upvotes/likes and reinforces sociopathic behavior and personal image management in a way that would make anyone 100 years back think we're literal geniuses now with the manipulative psychology we now know. See clickbait and skinner box mechanics and even basic mobile phone games.

Larger populations means shorter attention spans and more dehumanization because people are in high supply, to grab attention you need a far higher amount of rhetoric skill and extreme behavior now. The outrage market and attention market are very aggressive now just to get a minimum amount of attention from people and it's exhausting us with fear and paranoia so much that when real problems strike we're all too exhausted to deal with real problems now. See politicians getting away with less integrity now, more hypocracy and the public forgetting scandal after scandal because of too much bad news.

In economics, it's known that playing a game with new players all the time incentivizes bad ethics and morality because we're not in small numbers anymore and don't need to maintain good relations with the same people for a long term anymore for our survival.

Social media is frying people's brains with sheer numbers and the global testosterone numbers in men have never been lower and there are more people medicated for depression anxiety and poor mental health than ever in history.

I feel we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater when we say social media isn't really anything new.